The application, addressed to the high court registrar in Pretoria and Pistorius's defence team, notes that the sprinter knew there was a person behind the toilet door and chose to use a firearm, firing not one but four shots, and there was no room for escape for the person behind the door.
Linking of the firearm, fired cartridge case and bullet is a classical example of tool mark identification.
According to an account in La Jornada, one of the men responded aggressively to the students' shouting and produced a firearm, firing once at the floor to disperse the crowds who were surrounding them.
When a firearm is fired, it transfers these characteristics – in the form of microscopic scratches and dents – to the fired bullets and cartridge casings.
The officer drew her firearm and fired at the suspect, striking him".
During a "carefully planned and professionally executed armed robbery", a firearm was fired at a supervisor.
Slager said he "then felt threatened and reached for his department-issued firearm and fired his weapon".
The actual excitement, Yap says, starts after this documentation is complete: "For firearms, we fire the live rounds so as to collect the bullets and cartridge cases for comparison.
Just seconds after Dial crashed into a tree, "Deputy West reloaded his firearm and fired an additional shot".
Slager "felt threatened and reached for his department-issued firearm and fired his weapon," his attorney said in a statement on Sunday.
In addition to firearms and fire lances, the Huolongjing also illustrates the tall, vertical, mobile shield used to hide and protect infantry gunmen, known as the "mysteriously moving phalanx-breaking fierce-flame sword-shield".
