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Lefties are already trying to spin “Intermediate range” as “at some significant distance such that Jorge could have broken off the engagement.”

http://www.firearmsid.com/A_distanceResults.htm

Intermediate Range Gunshot

An intermediate range gunshot usually will deposit a significant amount of particulate residue that is not easily seen with the eye but can be detected through a microscopic examination and through chemical testing. The results may read something like:

Exhibit 1 (shirt) was found to have a bullet entrance hole in the chest area. A deposit of gunshot residues were found around this hole that are consistent with those that would be deposited by an intermediate range gunshot.

An intermediate range gunshot, like that seen in the above image, can range from just beyond the 12-inch range out to 24 to 36 inches. This depends greatly upon the caliber, barrel length and powder type used in the ammunition.

“An intermediate range gunshot, like that seen in the above image, can range from just beyond the 12-inch range out to 24 to 36 inches. This depends greatly upon the caliber, barrel length and powder type used in the ammunition.”

I've read other data from earlier posts that puts the range from 2 to 18 inches.

I once attended a lecture on gunshot wounds that featured a forensic examiner demonstrating the testing process by live firing his .38 snubbie into white tee shirts on cardboard target forms at various distances to show the results. While I was impressed with the demonstration, I commented on the fact that all the tests were done on tee's that were flat with a firearm muzzle perfectly perpendicular to the target.
If given the real world 3D nature of the target, the dynamics of the shooter and “target” flailing around, the wind, rain, and other environmental factors, not to mention the oblique nature of the muzzle to target, would the results be quite so cut and dried? I doubt it.
I always groan when the various “CSI” shows trot out all their “scientific” whiz bang test results and solve the unsolvable. Too many people believe the fantasy as fact.

Thanks. So it’s possible that Trayvon could be struggling over the gun with Zimmerman when the shot was fired at his arm’s length away from it and his hand on the gun could still have prevented the ejection of the casing.