@article{ref1,
title="Biomechanical-clinical interpretation of firearm wounds. general problems. XI. propedeutic abc of terminal ballistics",
journal="Chirurgia Italiana",
year="1993",
author="Marini, F. and Radin, S. and Carolo, F. and Mangiante, G. and Dagradi, V. and Della Giacoma, G. and Tenci, A. and Giarolli, M. and Massari, S. and Merico, G.",
volume="45",
number="1-6",
pages="169-182",
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.",
language="",
issn="0009-4773",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}