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HOMEMADE GUNS: GJ ORDOG, ET AL: JOURNAL OF TRAUMA. "Saturday Night Specials" and a self inflicted homemade gun injury, when the weapon 'backfired.' 1987.
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At the King/Drew Medical Center we saw approximately 4000 patients per year with gunshot wounds. We identified 50 serious injuries from "homemade guns." A description of the type of homemade firearm is given including photographs, of the firearms and the injuries. In south central Los Angeles a significant number of serious injuries were caused by...
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