Suicide with Home-made Gun
Authors:
M. Šafr 1; P. Hejna 1; L. Zátopková 2
Authors place of work:
Ústav soudního lékařství LF UK a FN, Hradec Králové
1; Ústav soudního lékařství FN, Ostrava
2
Published in the journal:
Soud Lék., 54, 2009, No. 2, p. 17-22
Summary
Three cases of suicide by single bullet injury to head by home-made guns with immediate incapacitation are reported in following article. Zip gun (home-made gun) is a improvised firearm, usually a handgun. Home-made guns are almost always single-shot, as the improvised construction sometimes makes them weak enough to be destroyed by the act of firing. Zip guns are mostly smoothbore. Zip gun injuries, although unique today, represent a special category of missile injury with atypical low velocity terminal ballistics.
Key words:
home-made gun – zip gun – gunshot injury – suicide – case report
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Štítky
Patologie Soudní lékařství ToxikologieČlánek vyšel v časopise
Soudní lékařství
2009 Číslo 2
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