I have read that the possible causes of lack of exit wound is when the bullet is still lodged inside or when the entry and exit point is the same. How can a bullet enter and exit the same point?
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It still counts as an exit point if it is removed through the same point. For example if a bullet enters you and stays lodged where it is, and it’s removed through that same entry point, it would technically have the same entry and exit point. The same would apply if the bullet was in fairly superficially and the body rejected it out of the same hole. Bodies can reject foreign objects by bringing them up to the skin and pushing them out.
Bullets can also ricochet off of internal structures like bones or if you have a steel plate or implant, but it would be extremely unlikely that it would turn it around enough to exit out of the same point.
Otherwise, there’s no way that a bullet traveling into the body could turn itself completely around or reverse and exit out of the same hole within the same gunshot it entered with.
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