Key legal question
Whether the defendant's negligent certificate was causally attributable to the grievous injury despite the victim also carrying a second loaded pistol.
Extracted holding
The alternative weapon did not break causation; liability depends on the concrete chain that actually realized, not on a hypothetical same-result scenario with another weapon.
Extracted reasoning
The certificate enabled return of the specific pistol used in the shooting. A possible injury with a different, independently owned pistol would have arisen from another causal chain and cannot negate attribution of the actual result.