Features of the national development of possibilities forensic diagnostics of the gunshot injuries

This article shows the role and contribution of individual forensic scientists and famous forensic academies in the development of learning gunshot injuries. The article presents an analysis of the national literary sources concerning development of possibilities and methods of forensic diagnostics of the main traumatic factor of gunshot injuries. The role of up-to-date digital technologies, particularly the method of three-dimensional spatial reconstruction of the gunshot wounds, which can empower possibilities of forensic diagnostics of the main traumatic factor of gunshot injuries are shown. Aim of the work. To analyze the development of diagnostic methods of a kind of the main traumatic factor of gunshot injuries in forensic medicine, to find the up-to-date and most diagnostically valuable methods for further investigation and implementation into experts’ practical work. Conclusions. Analysis of national forensic experts’ studies shows that forensic medical examination of gunshot body wounds has always been of current interest and become more and more actual. In every period of forensic medicine development new instrumental and laboratory methods of examination of gunshot wounds have appeared. One of the most topical and promising methods are means of the three-dimensional spatial reconstruction. It can improve the possibilities of forensic medical diagnostics of a kind and characteristic of the main traumatic factor of gunshot wounds.