  This paper presents a summary of seven distinct chains of evidence, which,
taken together, provide compelling support for the theory that a ballistic
pressure wave radiating outward from the penetrating projectile can contribute
to wounding and incapacitating effects of handgun bullets. These chains of
evidence include the fluid percussion model of traumatic brain injury,
observations of remote ballistic pressure wave injury in animal models,
observations of rapid incapacitation highly correlated with pressure magnitude
in animal models, epidemiological data from human shootings showing that the
probability of incapacitation increases with peak pressure magnitude, case
studies in humans showing remote pressure wave damage in the brain and spinal
cord, and observations of blast waves causing remote brain injury.
