title: [2 suicides with self-fabricated gunshot devices: technical forensic and morphologic ballistic characteristics].
abstract: Two suicides with home-made guns firing conventional ammunition are reported. Three different classes of homemade guns can be distinguished. Special characteristics of the interior and exterior ballistics of the home-made guns caused unusual muzzle imprints, intensive soot deposits at the entrance wounds and on the hands, intensive CO-effects, burns and in one case a skin laceration of the hand holding the weapon. The bullets showed a reduced penetration depth, characteristic firing marks were missing.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Universität Münster.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Karger
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Teige
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brinkmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002423:Cause of Death; D005389:Firearms; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013405:Suicide / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000473:pathology*
vernacular_title: Zwei Suizide mit selbstgefertigten Schussapparaten: Kriminaltechnische und einschussmorphologische Besonderheiten.