Shooting a gun on Earth towards space.

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Sorry for broken english I hope you understand me 🙂

I was wondering if its possible to shoot a handheld weapon or something “easy to get” and shoot it from Earth to get the bullet to hit the oxygen free space.

Is it even possible in any way or is it near impossible?

If so can this bullet become a high risk object that could damage or even destroy satellites once its in space?

Did we ever launch something to space without propelling it all the way up there? (once propelled on earth it doesnt get any more help flying up there)

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would using other material then normal bullets are made of elimate the problem of too high temperature and burning down?

Space shuttles use strengthened carbon or ceramics to protect form overheating.

If we would made a bullet out of that would it solve the problem or is it more complicated and it still would burn down because of its small size?

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