%0 Journal Article %T Injury potential of soft-air pistols %J Archiv für Kriminologie %D 2004 %A Nadjem, Hadi %A Braunwarth, Roland %A Pollak, Stefan %V 213 %N 1-2 %P 15-21 %X Report on a case in which an 8-year-old girl was injured on the left anterior thoracic wall by two shots fired by her 14-year-old cousin from a soft-air pistol (replica of mod. 17 make Glock, cal. 6 mm, solid plastic bullets); the projectiles caused two skin lesions, both reaching into the subcutis. The results of our own shooting tests with 2 different soft-air pistols and the injuries seen in our case confirm that soft-air pistols may cause penetrating soft-tissue injuries when fired from a short distance. %G %I Verlag Schmidt-Romhild %@ 0003-9225 %U http://dx.doi.org/