title: [Suicide with home-made gun].
abstract: Three cases of suicide by single bullet injury to head by home-made guns with immediate incapacitation are reported in following article. Zip gun (home-made gun) is a improvised firearm, usually a handgun. Home-made guns are almost always single-shot, as the improvised construction sometimes makes them weak enough to be destroyed by the act of firing. Zip guns are mostly smoothbore. Zip gun injuries, although unique today, represent a special category of missile injury with atypical low velocity terminal ballistics.
authors.affiliation: Ustav soudního lékarství LF UK a FN, Hradec Králové. safrm@lfhk.cuni.cz
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Safr
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Hejna
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zátopková
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000473:pathology*; D044709:Forensic Ballistics; D049429:Forensic Pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013405:Suicide; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000473:pathology*