Effect of mounting a sound suppressor on distribution and total amount of inorganic gunshot residue on targets.

ABSTRACT: Sound suppressors critically modify barrel overall length and ballistic performances of hosting guns and are therefore expected to influence the patterns of the plumes of gunshot residues (GSR) reaching the targets. Despite the forensic interest, in recent years, a single paper was published on the variations induced by the use of a suppressor in the spatial distribution of visible soot clouds on close targets and in the number of a few selected classes of GSR particles detected by scanning electron microscopy. A different approach, based on x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and inductively coupled plasma-optical emission (ICP-OES) spectroscopies, that points to most of the metallic elements ejected from the barrel, is suggested here. The confirmed effect of a sound suppressor up to a distance of 2

SUBMITTER: Donghi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12046103 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature