Citation

Marini F, Radin S, Carolo F, Mangiante G, Dagradi V, Della Giacoma G, Tenci A, Giarolli M, Massari S, Merico G. Chir. Ital. 1993; 45(1-6): 169-182.

Vernacular Title

Lettura biomeccanico-clinica della ferita d'arma da fuoco. Problematica generale

Affiliation

Istituto di Patologia Speciale Chirurgica e Propedeutica Clinica, Università di Verona.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, Societa Italiana di Chirurgia, Publisher Istituto per la Diffusione di Opere Scientifiche)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

7923490

Abstract

The pathogenetic potentiality of firearms differs in relation to whether we are dealing with rifled long-barrelled weapons, handguns, or smooth-bore long-barrelled guns. Up until a few years ago, the tissue-damaging effect, at least in the modern warfare context, of short-barrelled or smooth-bore long-barrelled firearms, was thoroughly negligible; today, however, their impact, as causes of wounds and death, is steadily increasing, and for the first time small bullets designed for low-cost military training are also coming to play a primary role on the battlefield. At the same time short-gun bullets are appearing which, which in the name of "stopping power" seem to contradict the very definition of a handgun. The smooth-bore long-barrelled gun, in turn, is casting off the anti-humanitarian image of the trench gun to play the more suggestive ordinance role of the grenadiercumhunter.