Peculiarities of gunshot injuries caused by shots Fort-12RM pistol using cartridges of calibre .45 Rubber

Abstract

Significant distribution of non-lethal weapons among the population of Ukraine in recent years has been an impetus for in-depth study of forensic medical features of the injuries that they cause. In particular, a special interest in forensic examination and investigation would have given data on the peculiarities of injuries caused by the model of the weapon, depending on its decoration. That is why the purpose of our work was to study the peculiarities of damage to textile material when shot from a nickel decorated pistol Fort-12RM equipped with cartridges of calibre .45 Rubber. The shots were carried out in the target, which represented pieces of cotton fabric, from distances from point-blank range to 1.5 m at right angles with further investigation of the defect and tissue in general. As a result of the study, for the first time the boundaries of close and not close ranges of a shot for a pistol Fort-12RM were established; for the first time, a contact-diffusion method for the nickel decorated Fort gun was conducted, which, at point-blank range firing, revealed the deposition of nickel, which in shape resembles the imprint of the muzzle; for the first time morphological features of damages of cotton fabric formed at shots from a pistol «Fort-12RM» from different distances of a shot were described; it has been discovered that pieces of material of cartridges of calibre .45 Rubber can be observed at all distances of the shot in the form of small flaky and filiform elements of black color. Thus, the specific features of the damage were discovered and the limits of the ranges of the shot for the nickel decorated pistol Fort-12RM equipped with cartridges of calibre .45 Rubber were discovered.