TY - JOUR PY - 1993// TI - Wound ballistics of extremely short-range shotguns JO - Archiv für Kriminologie A1 - Rabl, W. A1 - Eller, W. SP - 43 EP - 48 VL - 192 IS - 1-2 N2 - A 45-year-old man died from a homicidal shotgun wound of the neck. The autopsy showed that the plastic shell retaining cup had entered the body after the mass of the shot; the dispersion of the individual pellets was about 12 cm already. The perpetrator had used a conventional signal pistol equipped with a hand-made steel barrel, gauge 12, length 20 cm, and ammunition with 3 mm pellets (shot no. 5). By means of experimental shots with a similar weapon it could be proved that the entire shot including the plastic shell retaining cup can penetrate the skin at a muzzle-victim range of less than 2 m.

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