Could you catch a bullet in space after a gun has discharged? Do guns operate the same with little to no gravity?

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Could you catch a bullet in space after a gun has discharged? Do guns operate the same with little to no gravity?

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This has me wondering about spacecraft like the Voyagers. It seems as if there might have been some advantage to lifting a vehicle like this beyond earth’s gravitational reach and then “firing it” on its trajectory, like a bullet. Yes? No?

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