The indentation will have a specific depth. This spot may be centered or off center to the left or right or up or down. For instance, the firing pin in a specific gun hits a bullet primer in a specific place every time. The steel of these components will leave scratches and indentations on brass. Brass is softer than the steel which is used to make the business components of a pistol: barrel, firing pin, ejector, firing chamber. Most cartridge casings are made from brass. To be sure, a shell casing offers a great deal of information that can be used as evidence to both solve a crime and to convict the perpetrator. Even readers who have never owned or handled a gun now assume that at the scene of a crime there will be one or more empty casings thrown from fired weapons. Increased firepower is an attractive feature.įor writers, another beauty of the semi-automatic pistol is that it leaves evidence behind: shell casings. A semi-auto pistol generally holds more rounds than a revolver and is easier to reload in a high-stress situation. This is natural since the variety of semi-auto pistols has mushroomed in the past 30 years. Novels too seem to contain an overwhelming penchant for the semi-auto pistol. Whether it’s a crime of passion, a gangbanger spray-down, or a calculated assassination, the camera prefers the sleek, sexy lines of a semi-automatic over the bulkier revolver. If we go by movies and TV, murders are most frequently committed with semi-automatic pistols in either 9mm or.
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