Why does recoil go up and not down on a gun?
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A lot of answers focus on the hands, but not all guns are handguns and this happens even when the gun is sitting down on something and nobody is touching it.
Guns recoil back along the line of the barrel.
Most guns, a lot of the gun hangs below the barrel (stocks, grips, magazines, etc).
That means, compared to where it balances, the barrel is on top of that.
If the barrel is on top, and it goes back, then it makes the whole gun want to spin upwards some amount (not all of it) because the bottom parts of the gun don’t want to move.
The hands/shoulder/etc is just more holding the bottom parts and keeping them from moving, making the gun spin more and faster.
That spin is call ‘muzzle flip’, and is what you are thinking about going up.
But, if you were to change how the gun works, or, say, hold it upside down, it could spin down instead of up.
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