$20.00 International Wound Ballistics Association WOUND BALLISTICS REVIEW JOURNAL O.F THE INTERNATIONAL WOUND BALLISTICS ASSOCIATION Understanding the Law Enforcement Issues in Suicide by Cop -Shirley MacPherson Ph.D. 12 Gauge 00 Buckshot Ammunition Test -George Bredsten -Steve Bryant -Dan Fair -Eddie Brundage -Billie Savell Wound Profile of the Briese Controlled Disintegrater Ammunition in Caliber,.308 Winchester -Kramer D. Powley - Dean B. Dahlstrom IWBAHandgun Ammunition Specification Tests - 9mm in MP5 -Duncan MacPherson The Limitations of Water-Filled Cardboard Cartons in PredictingBullet Penetration -Gus Cotey, Jr. Comparison of the Terminal Performance of.22 Long Rifle Hollow Point Bullets - V.G. Swistounoff VOLUME 4 1999 NUMBER 1 INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS The Wound Ballistics Review welcomes manuscripts, articles, short notes and letters to the editor that contribute to the science of wound ballistics. Publication preference will lean strongly toward pertinent papers with clear practical applications. We invite cogent reviews of articles, books, news items, etc. Our goal is to commend good documentation as well as to point out the errors in the wound ballistics literature. The Wound Ballistics Review especially requests our readers' help in submitting short WOUND BALLISTICS REVIEW reviews which correcterrors noted in the literature. The review of all manuscripts reporting original work will be open; the names of reviewers will be given JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOUND BALLISTICS ASSOCIATION to authors of rej ected papers and will be made available upon request to anyone. VOLUME 4 Articles are accepted only for exclusive publication in IWBA, and when published, the articles and 1999 NUMBE R1 illustrations become the property ofiWBA. TABLE OF CO NTENTS Editorial..................................................................................................................................... 3 If submitting a letter or review which refutes or points out errors in another work, please provide the .. ... .. ... ... ... .. ..... .. .. ... ... .. ... address of the source (please include a copy ofthe article reviewed-these will be returned if requested). Questions and Comments . ... ... .. ... ... .. .... ... .... 4 In submitting original work, the manuscript and one copy are required; one set of high quality Understanding the Law Enforcement Issues in Suicide by Cop . ..... ...... ........ ...... ...... .. ...... 18 illustrations is required; black and white is preferred. Author's name must be clearly identified on the -Shirley MacPherson, Ph.D. title page with addresses and telephone number. Manuscript must be double-spaced with ample margins (at least one inch on all sides) on standard (8 1/2" x 11") paper. NOTE: THE PREFERRED 12 Gauge 00 Buckshot Ammunition Test .. ... ...... ................. .. ..... .................. ............. .. ....... 22 MANUSCRIPT FORM IS THE 3 1/2" (1.44 Meg or 720K) PC FLOPPY DISK WITH THE FILE AND -George Bredsten -Steve Bryant -Dan Fair A HARD COPY. Most major PC word processing files are acceptable but WordPerfect or Microsoft -Eddie Brundage -Billie Savell Word are preferred. (Please convert files to WordPerfect 5.1 or 6.0, or to Word fo r Windows 3.0-- 7.0.) PLEASE DO NOT PROVIDE COMPUTER TEXT WITH SPECIAL FONTS OR LAYOUTS: Wound Profile of the Briese Controlled Disintegrater Ammunition PLAIN: SIMPLE TEXT WITHOUT GRAPHICS OR MERGE FIELDS. Any graphs, tables, charts, etc. should be supplied as separate files and/or with a clean, high quality paper copy. Legends for all in Caliber .308 Winchester .................. .. ..... ..... .. .. ...... ..... .................... ..... ........ ...... ....... 25 illustrations should be listed in order, double-spaced. An abstract of 150 words or less should precede -Kramer D. Powley - Dean B. Dahlstrom the text. IWBA Handgun Ammunition Specification Tests - 9mm in MP5..... ......... ............. ... ..... .. .. 29 References are to be numbered sequentially within the text and appear in the order cited at the conclusion - Duncan MacPherson of the article. Page numbers must be given in books, cited as references. The Limitations of Water-Filled Cardboard Cartons EXAMPLES: in Predicting Bullet Penetration. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 30 1. Book: Broad W, Wade N, Betrayers of the Truth. New York, -Gus Cotey, Jr. Simon & Schuster, 1982, p 192 Comparison of the Terminal Performance of.22 Long RifleHollow Point Bullets .. ... ... ... ... 36 2. Article in periodical: Fackler ML, Surinchak JS, Malinowski JA, et al. Bullet fr agmentation: A major cause of tissue disruption. J Trauma 1984;24:263-266. -V.G. Swistounoff . .. .. 47 Articles submitted for publication consideration should be sent directly to the Editor-in-Chief: Book Review... .. ..... ........ .... .. ............... ........... ....... ...................... ........... ..... .... ... Dr. Martin L. Fackler, 211 Star Lake Drive, Hawthorne, FL 32640 Vol 4, No. 1 1 WOUND BALLISTICS REVIEW .JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL WOUND BALLISTICS ASSOCIATION Editorial JOURNALOF THE INTERNATIONAL WOUNDBALLISTICS ASSOCIATION IWBA ORGANIZATION EDITORIAL The International Wound Ballistics Association (IWBA) is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit Dr. Martin Fackler scientific,educational, and public benefit California corporation with Federal 10#94-3136817. The IWBA is devoted to the medical and techrical study of wound ballistics, including About This Issue tridges loaded with Matchking bullets that have a hol­ We are especially happy to present, in this is­ low point hole in the 0.020 inch range, they will be evaluation of literature in the field as well as encouraging and promoting new work. The WOUND BALLISTICS REVIEWis the Journal of theIWBA. sue, the article on "Suicide by Cop" by Shirley Mac­ stuck with a bullet that performs erratically - a disaster Pherson, PhD, a mental health professional. This sub­ waiting to happen. It is about time that some of the ject got national attention recently, when it was pre­ large law enforcement purchasers specify to the bullet Board of Directors sented on one of the major TV news magazine pro­ supplier that the 30 caliber Matchkings they purchase grams (NBC's Dateline, I believe) within the past few must have a hollow point hole of 0.60 to 0.70 inch. Torrey D. Johnson Martin L. Fackler, MD Alexander Jason months. I think the perspective that Shirley presents in That should solve their inconsistent performance Wound Ballistics Consultant Ballistics Consultant Criminalist her authoritative and well written article is one that problem while still retaining the inherent accuracy of Gainseville, FL Pinole, CA Las Vegas NV will provide some badly needed help to the law en­ the Matchking bullet. We work hard in the IWBA to fo rcement community. try to help the law enforcement community, but there Peter G. Kokalis Douglas Lindsey, MD, DrPH Duncan MacPherson In the past six months we have had several is a point at which they have to take the initiative in Firearms Consultant Professor of Surgery,Emeritus Engineering Consultant questions submitted by members that we felt war­ applying the information supplied and help them­ Phoenix,AZ Cortaro, AZ El Segundo, CA ranted special attention. These questions, about the selves. effects of rifle versus handgun bullets, about "shock Members who seek reliable information on waves" associated with bullet penetration, and about ballistics should be sure to read the book review in this Richard Mason, MD Eugene Wolberg the efficacy of shots to the pelvic area, are asked fre­ issue. quently but rarely answered precisely. We fe lt that Chief Medical Examiner Criminalist Feedback these topics deserved authoritative and comprehensive Santa Cruz,CA San Diego, CA We are extremely interested in any well answers, so we put a lot of effort into attempting to documented shooting results involving handgun am­ fu rnish them. We hope we clarified these issues and munition that has been rated against the IWBA Hand­ possibly provided a source to which others can refer in gun Ammunition Specification. We are not interested the fu ture fo r clear answers to these questions when in any "one shot stop" nonsense, but want to know WOUND BALLISTICS REVIEW the subject come up again. We thank these members how this ammunition expanded in actual use. We need for providing the insightful and pertinent questions and Journal of the International Wound Ballistics Association to know what materials were penetrated prior to tissue hope others will notice their example and continue to ISSN 1055-0305 ©Copyright 1995, IWBA. All Rights Reserved contact, what part of the body was struck, whether give us the chance to clarify difficult issues. We like to bone was hit, and (if possible) the length of the wound think of our questions and comments section one of Editor-in-Chief: Martin L. Fackler track. Please contact the IWBA office if you have any the most valuable parts of the Wound Ballistics Re- such information. Production Manager: Duncan MacPherson view. The Briese bullet (testing described on pages The.224BOZ Design & Production -Townsend Document & Design 25-28) was probably invented because of the incon­ The November 1998 Guns and Ammo has a sistent performance of the 168 grain Sierra Matchking cover article on the.224 BOZ and the article shows that The WOUND BALLISTICS REVIEWis issued twice a year. Subscriptions are included with bullet, as pointed out previously in this journal (Vol 2, G&A thinks very highly of this development. While membership, but are av ailable