I honestly don't know which way a body would fall if shot at close range?
IF Trayvon was on top of Z would the force of the gun make him fall forward or backward?
BBM
In order to respond to the question posed in this comment, Ive done a little searching around this morning, out of curiosity, regarding the TYPE of gun used to kill this boy. I went to a couple of gun sites that Im familiar with and found that this was the weapon being carried around by Zimmerman as he pursued Trayvon Martin.
The neighborhood watch captain was carrying a Kel Tec PF-9 on that fateful night. For those who arent familiar with it, the PF-9 is a slender, highly concealable 7+1 9mm pistol.
It has been reported that the gun was recovered with a full magazine and that only the chambered round had been fired. This is a condition we associate with something preventing the gun from cycling a fresh round from the magazine into the chamber after the shot was discharged. One thing that can cause that is another mans hand wrapped around the pistol, retarding its slide mechanism.
http://backwoodshome.com/blogs/Mass...mmerman-and-trayvon-martin-what-we-dont-know/
Not being familiar with this particular gun, I read 3 reviews and was only mildly surprised to find it described using terms of pocket nine, petite pistol, and tiny niney.
The question posed in the comment I am responding to was a result of a couple of posts I have put up regarding Zimmermans stories of being attacked by Trayvon versus the position the body was found in.
IF Trayvon was on top of Z, would the force of the gun make him fall forward or backward?
To answer this question, after reading the above, please watch a few moments of this video:
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Zimmermans little gun, while certainly capable of death and destruction, was not capable of lifting a 5lb bag of groceries and spinning it 180 degrees, much less a 6 tall, 160 lb young man with his entire life ahead of him.
Trayvon Martin, dropped where he was shot. IMO, the position of his body as found, negates Zimmermans false claims of being beaten by this young man.