10ofRods
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A bullet can also shatter a skull.
Shatter it?
From a distance with a big sized round, maybe. In a suicide, really rare. Unless it was some big huge round - even then, "shatter" (to a forensics person) jeans "break into small fragments." Several bullets needed for that.
Or blunt for trauma, repeated (not a suicide, a smashing).
Guns blow holes in skulls (either ending up with the bullet inside for small caliber) or exiting into the environment otherwise. Exit hole usually bigger than entry - with one side of the skull quite intact (except for a round hole) and other side shattered.
Still can tell immediately...it was a gun and how close it was to the skull.