[Dangerousness of blank fright guns and salute rifles].
According to the German law salute-fire guns altered weapons with a barrel length of more than 60 cm. They have inside the barrel special constructions, which are guiding the gunshot residues under high pressure to the muzzle. Therefore they own an high potential of injury, like blank-cartridge guns with short barrels.
Schöning
R
R
Institut für Rechtsmedizin, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg.
Krause
D
D
Lichtenberg
W
W
Schmidt
U
U
Effenberger
O
O
D004867:Equipment Design; D005389:Firearms / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D012307:Risk Factors; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000209:etiology*