[I did see that this was answered a few years ago but the answer was a little too unscientific] I’m watching the movie and decided to Google it. All the answers are really physics heavy and I’m having trouble understanding. One answer even went on to speak about long distance military shooting, the rotation and curvature of the earth, and the fact that the bullet and earth themselves are both gyroscopes. The Magnus effect was mentioned as well. I still dont understand why it’s not possible.
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Once the bullet had left the gun there os’s no longer any forced acting on it so it will continue on its way in a combined direction of the swing of the gun and the direction the barrel is pointing. It won’t go in a straight curve it will be a straight line.
The other thing to keep in mind of that the amount of sideways movement will be a sum of its time in the air by the speed of arm movement. As you can imagine that won’t be a lot
So it will move just not a lot
If you are thinking of a flick, it won’t be much better. How far could you flick a small pebble out of the barrel of a pistol? Compound that difficulty by the amount of time the bullet spend’s in the barrel which is a defining factor in the amount of sideways force you can impose into the bullet
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