Citation

Safr M, Hejna P, Zátopková L. Soud. Lek. 2009; 54(2): 17-22.

Vernacular Title

Sebevrazda podomacku vyrobenou strelnou zbrani.

Affiliation

Ustav soudního lekarství LF UK a FN, Hradec Kralove. safrm@lfhk.cuni.cz

Copyright

(Copyright © 2009, Česká lékařská společnost J. E. Purkyně, Publisher Statni Zdravotnicke Nakladatelstvi)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

19534397

Abstract

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 smooth-bore. Zip gun injuries, although unique today, represent a special category of missile injury with atypical low velocity terminal ballistics.

Language: cs