Comparative characteristic of clothing and human body simulator gunshot damage after firing with 12-gauge cartridges loaded with expanding and non-expanding slug
- Authors: Pinchuk P.V.1,2, Leonov S.V.1,3, Khodulapov A.V.1, Likhachev A.S.4
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Affiliations:
- Chief State Center for Forensic Medicine and Forensic Expertise 111
- The Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov
- Russian University of Medicine
- Russian Federal Centre for Forensic Expertise under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation
- Issue: Vol 10, No 3 (2024)
- Pages: 295-304
- Section: Original study articles
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2411-8729/article/view/267492
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/fm16086
- ID: 267492
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The study of gunshot damage after firing with 12-gauge cartridges loaded with expanding slugs is interesting, because it has been undescribed in the modern forensic literature.
AIM: To study clothing and the human body simulator experimental gunshot damage after firing with 12-gauge cartridges loaded with expanding and non-expanding slugs.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: Visual and metric methods were used. The process of slug penetration to target was recorded with a high-speed Phantom VEO video camera 710S, with a Zeiss Milvus 1.4/35 lens. Video shooting at a frequency of 24,000 frames per second was conducted.
RESULTS: Clothing and the human body simulators experimental gunshot injuries after firing with 12-gauge cartridges loaded with expanding and non-expanding slugs was analyzed. The main differences of the gunshot damage morphological features were determined by slug terminal ballistics.
CONCLUSION: The experimental study results can be used for forensic identification of structurally similar slugs of 12-gaude cartridges UNO 35 and UNO 35E by the morphological features of the biological tissues and clothing gunshot damage.
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##article.viewOnOriginalSite##About the authors
Pavel V. Pinchuk
Chief State Center for Forensic Medicine and Forensic Expertise 111; The Russian National Research Medical University named after N.I. Pirogov
Email: pinchuk1967@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0223-2433
SPIN-code: 7357-3038
MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), Professor
Russian Federation, Moscow; MoscowSergey V. Leonov
Chief State Center for Forensic Medicine and Forensic Expertise 111; Russian University of Medicine
Author for correspondence.
Email: Sleonoff@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4228-8973
SPIN-code: 2326-2920
MD, Dr. Sci. (Medicine), Professor
Russian Federation, Moscow; MoscowAndrey V. Khodulapov
Chief State Center for Forensic Medicine and Forensic Expertise 111
Email: andrey-corsar@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7165-2960
SPIN-code: 5174-8374
Russian Federation, Moscow
Artem S. Likhachev
Russian Federal Centre for Forensic Expertise under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation
Email: sbl@sudexpert.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0816-0204
Russian Federation, Moscow
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