Archiv für Kriminologie
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Archiv für Kriminologie · Mar 2001
Case Reports[Suicide with a walking cane gun: weapon, injury picture and psychopathology].
In Germany firearms camouflaged as items of daily use are forbidden. While reports on ball-point pen-guns have repeatedly been published in literature, the use of a walking-stick gun is a rarity. ⋯ Under forensic and criminological aspects the significance of a walking-stick gun is comparable to that of ball-point pen-guns. Both weapons can be carried and used inconspicuously, but from a walking-stick gun also ammunition of larger calibres with a higher potential of injury can be fired.