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Article: Handloads for self-defense: the Daniel Bias case.(The Ayoob Files)
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- American Handgunner
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Situation: Authorities try to determine if a death was suicide, blameless accident, manslaughter, or murder by replicating gunshot residue.
Lessons: Load easily replicable factory rounds in your defense guns ... and don't leave firearms where suicidal people can access them.
May, 1990. I hang up the telephone and lean back in the chair in my office and utter the words, "Damn it!"
John Lanza, the attorney defending a young man against a charge of Murder, has just told me, "The state will contend that a different load with a different powder charge was used than what we determined from the defendant's reloading notes was likely to have been in the ...