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shaayecanaan

(6,068 posts)
Mon Jun 9, 2014, 12:26 AM Jun 2014

Shot with full metal jacket ammunition

at reasonably short range (80m). The bullet won't fragment or necessarily even tumble at that range as long as it passes through soft tissue, which is what is indicated in the autopsies.

You dont necessarily see a lot of blood immediately with gunshot wounds, particularly with FMJ. Of course, the victims bled quite copiously after that:-

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