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“Types of weapons”
DOCENTE: LIC. CARRILLO SARANGO LEYDI
VERONICA
CURSO: ENGLISH
PRESENTED BY ALO1 PNP:
LOPEZ GARCIA, YERSON
LOPEZ MATAMORO, YAIR
ELERA MEDINA, ENRIQUE
ZARATE CRUZ, CRISTMAN
TUMBES-PERÚ
2018
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INDEX
DEDICATION……………………………………………………………………………… …..4
GRATITUDE……………………………………………………………………………………5
INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................... 6
FIRST PART REFERENTIAL………………………………………………………………..7
FIREARMS……………………………………………………………………………………. 8
CLASSIFICATION OF FIREARMS………………………………………………………10
Gunshot wounds……………………………………………………………………12
ACCIDENTS WITH FIREARMS………………………………………………….14
SIGN OF BENASSI…………………………………………………………………..………17
SIGN OF BONNET………………………………………………………………………….19
MEDICAL LEGAL ISSUES CONCLUSION……………………………………………….20
CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………………………….….21
BIBLIOGRAPHY……………………………………………………………………………22
ANNEXES……………………………………………………………………………………..
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DEDICATION
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Gratitude
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INTRODUCTION
Light weapons are firearms that can be transported and unloaded by one
person, unlike artillery weapons. By extension, also include in this category the
automatic weapons that were developed from the portable as machine guns,
which used the same ammunition as the military rifles or machine guns of
highest caliber. Since the border between small arms and artillery is so diffuse,
each of the military bodies defines an arbitrary gauge which refers to
artillery. The boundaries change over time. These weapons do not have a strict
definition, but generally include rifles, pistols, revolvers, rifles, light guns and
machine guns.
The first short weapons that appeared were miniature models of artillery
weapons. Initially it was called them hand cannons.
During the first quarter of the 14th century appeared the hand cannon, which
was nothing more than a simple tube of polished iron closed at one end. In this
there is a small hole. Tube is embedded in a piece of rounded wood to hold it
under his arm, was loaded with gunpowder and a metal ball and shot putting a
hot wire through the hole in the back. Later models had a small depression in
the form of dish, called Bowl, close the hole on. There stood a small amount of
gunpowder that was lit with a wick, which was a piece of string soaked in a
solution of potassium nitrate, dried later. This made it to consume without flame
and that shuts itself off. But the gunpowder of the Bowl was difficult to turn on,
are damping frequently and required precautions to prevent unwanted shots.
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REFERENTIAL
I. - theme.
Firearms
II. Object.
Descriptive work of legal firearms, their classification, injuries and
medical problems.
III. Purpose.
The purpose of this study is to conduct a descriptive study
which, in turn, the same as a guide to students of UNIVALLE., law, so
they apply legal techniques and medical procedures and thus to
determine with precision the occurred injuries by firearms.
IV. Justification.
This work is a compilation and systematization of data that will allow the
training of the students of UNIVALLE., law, will contribute in the process
of vocational training in the medical field that is legal to use all
procedures realized in certain situations that arise during the
development of their professional lives and contribute to the process of
teaching new generations that pass through our classrooms.
It is only through the knowledge that will achieve optimal results in the
professional training since current life requires great delivery and
responsibility of the practitioner.
V. objectives.
A. GENERAL OBJECTIVE.
Describing firearms, their classification, wounds caused by
firearms, classification of the same and the legal issues that may arise.
B. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES.
1 describe the firearms.
2 correctly classified weapons
3 differentiate wounds caused by firearms
4. Explain the problems medical - legal are presented.
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FIREARMS
I. GENERAL.
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EXTERIOR BALLISTICS
Exterior ballistics, shape, size, weight, initial speeds, rotation, air resistance and
gravity are the elements that influence the trajectory of a projectile from the
moment that leaves the barrel until it reaches the target.
Until the half of the 16th century it was believed that bullets moved in a straight
line from the barrel to the target and fired by mortar bombs described a path
consisting of two straight lines connected by an arc of a circle. The Italian
mathematician Niccolò Tartaglia argued, in a Treaty on cannons, that any
portion of the trajectory of a projectile could be a straight line, and that the
greater was the speed of the projectile, tauter would be his career. Tartaglia
invented the quadrant of cannons used to determine the elevation of the mouth
of fire. Galileo showed that, in a vacuum, a projectile describes a parabolic
arc. The description of the law of the Isaac Newton gravity clarified the cause of
the curvilinear motion of projectiles. By the use of calculus, Newton determined
the transferred amount of motion of the projectile to the particles of air at rest;
this method to calculate the air resistance has been overcome by the use of
tables, derived from experimental shooting.
To determine the speed of the projectile once abandoned the canon used two
methods: one measures the amount of movement of the projectile, the other
calculates the time required so that the projectile covers a specific distance. The
first method is the oldest and was used as the guns and projectiles were small,
low speeds and short scopes, so their findings were accurate enough for most
practical purposes. The ballistic pendulum and pendulum barrel were used to
measure the amount of motion of the projectile, but such mechanisms were
replaced by cheaper and safe machines working on the principles of the second
method.
The ballistic pendulum was developed to 1743 by Robins, who was the first to
face a systematic series of experiments to determine the speed of
projectiles. The principle of the ballistic pendulum, as well as the pendulum of
Cannon developed by Thompson, lies in the transfer of the amount of
movement of a projectile with small mass and high speed, a large mass with
resulting low speed.
Ballistic pendulum consists of a huge iron plate which is bolted a block of wood
to receive the impact of the projectile; the pendulum is suspended from a
horizontal axis. To be hit by the projectile, the block was receding in a true arc
that could be measured easily. Knowing the recoil bow and masses of projectile
and the pendulum, the speed of the projectile could calculate. Ballistic
pendulum just bore the impact of musket bullets; However, Robins made
significant progress in the science of the cannons to determine relationships
that had to occur between the caliber, barrel length and the energy charge.
Thanks to the second method, the speed of the projectile is determined by
measuring the time it takes to traverse a known length of his career, many
machines have been designed for this purpose. In 1840 the British physicist sir
Charles Wheatstone suggested the use of electricity for measuring short time
intervals. This suggestion led to the development of the chronograph, a
mechanism that was logged by electrical means the time he needed a projectile
to pass between two fine wire screens.
Formulas and tables for exterior of each new type of barrel ballistics are more or
less empirical and must be verified by actual experiments, until mechanisms
aim to accurately calibrate.
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CLASSIFICATION OF FIREARMS
1. TYPE OF MATERIAL
Shoulder: you rifles, carbines and shotguns.
SHOULDER ARMS
Called guns of "Long", or "Shoulder" are those that need to be supported on the
shoulder of the shooter and the use of both hands for normal use. They differ
primarily according to they have its Cannon:
"Striated" (stretch marks are the grooves engraved on the inside of the barrel of
a firearm.
"Smooth", when they totally have no stretch marks.
Presenting its fluted barrel are classified in turn:
"Carbines," when the barrel length does not exceed 560 mm in length
"You rifles" when this measure is exceeded.
From the legal point of view, the legal regime to which they are subject the rifles
and carbines is identical.
They have your cannon smooth are "Shotguns", that can be of one or two
pipes, which are normally loaded with cartridges containing pellets.
Carbines and rifles, charge shot, repeating or semi-automatic:
Load shotguns shooting shot, repeating or semi-automatic:
Fist: pistols, revolvers and pistolones.
FIST WEAPONS
Weapons of "Fist", also called "Short", are those that have been designed to be
used normally using one hand without being supported elsewhere in the
body. Within fist weapons are basically three:
Guns: They are short of one or two guns rifled with his permanently aligned with
the barrel Chamber. They can be shot to shot, repeating or semi-automatic. The
current and most common models correspond to the semi-automatic: COLT.45,
BERSA, BROWNING 9 MM. 380, etc.
Revolvers: They are knurled bore fist weapons that possess a number of
bedrooms in a cylinder or drum mounted coaxially with the canon. A mechanism
spins drum mode such that the bedrooms are on line with the bore of the
barrel. They can be single or double action. The most modern are double
action: COLT, SMITH & WESSON, RUGER, TAURUS, Ruby, DOBERMAN,
etc.
c. Pistolones: it is a weapon of hunting, fist and shot to shot, one or two
cannons of smooth-bore, which is normally loaded with cartridges containing
pellets, example: REXIO, STEVENS, etc.
2 FIRING SYSTEM
Shot to shot: are weapons that have no warehouse or charger and require the
shooter to manually repeat the full action of loading of the weapon in each
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shot; as for example in shotguns "break or scale" of one or two pipes (Art. 3 °
inc 7 ° Dto. 395/75).
Repetition: they are those in which the cycle of loading and unloading of the
magazine is carried out mechanically by action of the shooter, being
accumulated in a warehouse loader projectiles; as for example (a MAUSER
rifle) bolt systems; lever (the traditional rifle WINCHESTER); trombone or action
to pump - action pumper - (ITHAKA or BATAAN shotguns) (Art. 3 ° inc 8 ° Dto
395/75).2
Semi-automatic: it is that it is necessary to press the shutter button (trigger) for
each shot and weapons in which the cycle of loading and unloading is carried
out without the intervention of the shooter; such as for example the majority of
guns (COLT. 45, BROWNING 9 mm, etc.) (Art. 3 ° inc 9 ° Dto 395/75).
Automatic: are the ones by pressing and holding the trigger, occurs more than
one firing continuously, as for example machine guns (Art. 3º inc. 10 disc.
395/75).
CALIBER
Usually expressed in "mm" (7, 65 mm, 9 mm, 11.25 mm), or "fractions of an
inch" (. 38,. 357,. 44. 45) or "absolute units" (12, 16, 20, used for shotguns and
pistolones).
3. SPORTING WEAPONS.
Pistolones of hunting: one or two guns, charge shot to calibers 14.2 mm (28), 14 mm. (32) and
12 mm. (36).
Carbines and rifles load shot to shot or repeat up to 5.6 mm calibers (.22 inches) inclusive, with
the exception of which used ammunition of higher power or dimension as the so-called "22 long
rifle" (.22 LR).
Load shotguns shot, whose cannons have a length not less than 600 mm. [2]
Another way to classify the weapons are as follows:
Short weapons (revolver or gun).
Medium-sized weapons (submachine gun, Pistam).
Long weapons (shotgun, rifle, shotgun)
Contemporary weapons (rockets, atomic bomb).
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Gunshot wounds
Damage caused.
Depending on the distance
Point blank . Occurs with the weapon in direct contact with the body or part of
it. Inlet is star-shaped, the edges tend to be blackened by the burning
gunpowder, they are irregular and they are normally torn. The size of the hole is
greater than the caliber of the weapon. Due to gases, there are bumps on the
skin, face and skull an explosive effect is produced. In the wound penetrates
carbon monoxide and black smoke residue are located.
Close range. The subject that gets the shot is within the scope of the flame. The
hole is shaped grommet or circular. Locates iliotibial contusion, and very often
the siege of cleaning. Around the wound, a burn is produced by the flame, the
skin tissues and hair appear scorched. Also, smoke and gunpowder and metal
particles, produced a tattoo on the skin.
Short distance . It is held at one greater distance that at point-blank range,
being within the scope of the particles form the tattoo. Approximately goes from
30 centimeters to meter.
The injury is similar to that at point-blank range, removing the effects produced
by the flame. The remains of gunpowder tend not to spend 70 centimeters of
distance, reaching more than unburned.
Long distance. It is located underground to the extent of the bullet. They do not
reach the materials that form the tattoo. In the wound is not the tattoo, the
wound is oval or circular and presents iliotibial erosive-contusive and fence of
cleaning
Effects on the human body.
CONCEPTS.
Power of detention.
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Power of penetration.
He is calculated by dividing the Energy Kinetics (in kgm) at the time of the
impact, between the section of the projectile (in cm2). The unit is the "perf". The
coefficient will vary depending on the way how projectile which is made and the
nature of where it hits. Unlike explained to the stopping power, to increase the
power of penetration, are bullets that have the impact a minimum surface.
ACCIDENTS WITH FIREARMS.
The unintentional, especially in revolvers, pistols, and shotguns are more
frequent than it can be assumed.
Usually those who suffer these mishaps keep reserve it, and rarely transcends,
unless this or these shooting injury to another person.
The causes or factors linked to the generation of one accident either, can be
classified into two groups: FACTOR human and FACTOR MATERIAL, these
factors may or not be interrelated, and are generally concurrent, although to
varying degrees of importance.
HUMAN FACTOR
There is sufficient consensus to be attributed to the human factor the main
responsibility in the generation of accidents with firearms.
While up to two decades ago was accepted that approximately 90% of the
claims originated by human error, recently, advances in investigation
procedures, changed this view, accepting today, some specialists, that only
70% of accidents would be clearly attributable to this cause, while the rest of
them would be linked to direct material failures, wear and tear of components of
weapons, poor maintenance, and shock during use they receive.
MATERIAL FACTOR
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When a weapon has been used for a long time, that is to say that it has been a
lot of shooting, it was draining slowly, due to the friction of the internals,
pressures and high temperatures generated by the explosions of gunpowder,
which in turn led to high temperatures and vibrations that were changing the
molecular trigger system-wide structure.
In the trigger mechanism and the canons of firearms, there are two functional
features, as well as the dimensional, that give us the idea of a weapon because
it has completed its cycle of full use, first called agony to then go to the Ballistic
death.
Charbonnier, in theory, perfectly explains this phenomenon: as the projectile
moves along the bore of the barrel, are generated in gaseous fluid, waves
which, starting from the rear of the projectile, move towards the shorts of the
sheath to a high speed. When these waves hit the bottom of the sheath, begins
a reverse tour encounter new waves that were generated after his career.
So, the gaseous mass becomes something comparable to a rubber spring,
which induces a new energy to the projectile. This phenomenon he called
"gaseous vein", which, taking into account conditions of temperature, pressure
and vibration of molecules, is going to be translated first to the barrel of the gun
and then to all its firing mechanism.
Let us remember that when there is a force and pressure on an elastic material,
it suffers a deformation. If the intensity of the force and the pressure is small
value, once you stop the effort, the material regains its primitive form. This type
of deformation is called elastic deformation.
Although weapons are designed for each cartridge with its pressure and
temperature, also this material is will wearing slowly until you reach the ballistic
death. This does not mean that the weapon will not be shot when it has ballistic
death, but may present defects in the mechanism and cause unwanted shot.
ROLE OF THE BALLISTIC EXPERT
Is therefore sitting the importance of a thorough and systematic treatment to
each claim, only way to elucidate the speech that it had each of the factors, and
the realization of one expert complete placing the gun in all the scenarios to
determine reliably whether the error was human or the sworn weapon material.
We must take into account that the experts are auxiliary of Justice, and that
expertise is another link in all the research, and that ultimately it is the
intervening judge who ordered the actions to follow. Well, now is of utmost
importance the communication between them, since the expert can see
something that interests in the cause, and for reasons that the magistrate has
not requested it, to lose something important for the total clarification of the fact
that investigates.
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The joke was carried out with the following result: at the time of the shot, with
the previously mentioned cartridge and doomed gun, the hot gases of the
explosion of the gunpowder and the plastic dowel penetrated into the neck of
the victim with an end of career in the upper part of the shell skull, dying it
instantly.
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Projectile entered on the back of the victim with an exit hole in the left
cheekbone, according to autopsy carried out by a forensic physician, i.e. that
the path was bottom up.
The problem arose when it was learned that the weapon had a hammer
insurance, and must then ballistic experts perform a thorough investigation of
the incriminated weapons; Since it never can be fired if you have this type of
insurance when the tail of the hammer hits.
Seen how it works:
We can see in the figure on the left, that the tail of the trigger (trigger) is
pressed; This means, that the weapon is a penalty shooting, moment in which
the same insurance lowers automatically.
But as we can see in the figure on the right, when the tail of the trigger and the
hammer are in rest position, insurance holds the hammer to prevent it from
hitting the Primer of the cartridge, which is located in the alveolus of the weapon
drum in case this fall or be hit.
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After a thorough inspection of the weapon it was concluded that the same
insurance was broken, as shown in the following figure. Being broken
insurance, did not hold the hammer to drop the gun to the ground, and needle
striker hit the Primer of the cartridge, producing thus the deadly shot.
"SIGN OF BENASSI"
To make a shot at very close range or with the barrel resting on the skin in an
anatomical region where there is an underlying bone level (ribs, scapula, tibia,
skull, etc.), will occur on the outer table of the bone a ring of ahumamiento
which allows the diagnosis of "port of entry" projectile weapon of fire even in the
absence of soft tissue.
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Fig. 3 Then scoured the region, disappears the ahumamiento and there are
some tears at time 8, 9 and 10, which may correspond to the sign described as
"Hit or mouth of mine of Hofmann".
Fig. 4 Shows the outlet hole in the left parieto-occipital region of the scalp.
Fig.5 Leave traces of fracture that extends through the shell from inlet.
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Fig.6 Fracture strokes extend also by the left temporal and occipital region .
Fig.8 Macro where it is observed, to level of the bone plane inlet, the
ahumamiento produced by the explosion of gunpowder "Benassi sign".
"SIGN OF BONNET"
Formation of a cone with one crater of greater internal injury of skull, produced
by the entrance of a firearm projectile.
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CONCLUSION
The firearm has as an active element of contusion to the bullet which is formed
by: capsule containing gunpowder and projectile that causes the different kinds
of injury. The fired projectile is a forceful element and the lesion that causes is a
contuse wound.
Should never be ruled out in any sinister material factor, this should be a
comprehensive expert for the purpose of thoroughly to determine if the weapon
has a defect in factory, wear or break of any of the elements of the mechanism
of shot.
In the study of firearm injuries is to be considered. 1) entrance hole; (2) the
outlet hole; (3) the journey, the distance from which is fired the shot; (4) the
characteristics of the projectile found and the identification of the weapon; (5)
proof of the gauntlet.
In regards to the human factor, inexperience, irresponsibility, confidence, and
lack of concentration are factors fundamental, since most people do not have in
mind when handling a firearm, you must always handled as if it were loaded
and ready to fire.
Ballistic expert's role is very important because it is the only way to clarify the
speech that in the same tube every one of the factors.
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ANNEXES
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