Mr. Specter. Yes.
Dr. Akin. If, however, he had been shot with a high velocity military type of rifle, for example, it could be either an entrance wound or an exit wound.
Mr. Specter. Why do you say it could be either an entrance wound or an exit wound with respect to the rifle?
Dr. Akin. Well, because a high velocity missile coming from a military rifle, especially if the missile were a jacketed missile, a copper- or steel-jacketed missile, itself, the missile itself is not distorted when it passes through soft tissue, and the wound made when the bullet leaves the body, is a small wound, much like the wound of entrance, but like I said, I didn't devote much time to conjecture about this.
Mr. Specter. How much experience have you had, if any, on gunshot wounds, doctor?
Dr. Akin. I can't really give you, say, how many cases a week I see of this. Most of my experience with this is in an anesthetic situation with patients coming into the hospital, having sustained gunshot injuries, most of them are injured with low velocity missiles, smaller caliber—.22 caliber to .38 caliber, and most of them are not injured in a through and through fashion. In other words, I don't see too many exit wounds, the bullets are slow moving, and they enter the body and don't leave it. They usually stay in it, so consequently I could not be considered an expert in exit wounds.
Mr. Specter. Is that the general line of bullet wounds which come into Parkland Hospital, would you say?
Dr. Akin. What I have just described, you mean?
Mr. Specter. Yes.
Dr. Akin. Yes; I think so. Most of the people seem to be shot with cheap ammunition fired out of inferior weapons.