02-11-2018, 11:00 AM
(02-11-2018, 02:10 AM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: I think I'm with the right crowd to ask this question... If someone shoots them self in the head with a .357, wouldn't that leave a pretty big exit hole in the back of the head?
According to the autopsy report on Paddock, there was no exit wound.
From a quick glance, the occipital part of the brain is at the lower-back with the dura being the soft layers
between the skull and the brain. Paddock's autopsy report says he shot himself in the mouth and the bullet
travelled through the skull and came to rest at the occipital bone area.
I'm not a firearms expert, so is it that the projectile failed to exit Paddock's skull due to being a 'copper-jacketed,
gray metal' bullet or was it that the weapon used for the suicide wasn't powerful enough?
The list of firearms reportedly discovered in the hotel room:
Fourteen .223-caliber AR-15-type assault rifles
Seven .308-caliber AR-10-type rifles
One .308-caliber Ruger American bolt-action rifle
One .38-caliber Smith & Wesson Model 342 revolver.
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