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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I don’t know about in space. In water the gun would fire but the bullet goes nowhere. I would think in space some parts would mess up, but it would probably fire a round but depending on where you are in space the round could go on forever
No. It will rip through your hand just as easily as on Earth.
The force from a gun comes from the explosion of gunpowder (and its modern counterparts) behind the bullet. This shoots the bullet out the barrel at high speeds. This will happen with or without gravity.
Whether a gun will fire in a vacuum is a different thing, but after it gets fired, it’s the same.
Once you have a moving bullet, it will just stay moving until another force hits it, aka, your hand, which will react in exactly the same way as it would on the surface.
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