Can you fire a gun in outer space?

Question

What happens?

Answer 1

Can you fire a gun in outer space?
Yes.

What happens?
Newton's 3rd law - every action has an equal and opposite reaction

Answer 2

You must mean gun that use gunpowder, don't you.

Not all place in the space is cold , so the gunpowder may still ignite. Even when the space has no temperature, the sun's radiation may still warm the gunpowder.

When you pull the trigger, the bullet will move formard, while you will move backward depend on the proportion between your mass, and the bullet's mass.
As there is no air resistance, the more bullet you shoot the faster you will fly to the opposite direction.

Anyway you will not hear the bang!bang!bang! as sound can't travel in vacuum.

Answer 3

When you fire a gun in outer space, the cartridge explodes and the bullet shoots out the end of the gun barrel and a recoil is felt in the shooter's hand. No sound is produced because sound does not travel in a vacuum.

Answer 4

Pretty much the same as here on Earth. The bullet is propelled by the chemical reactions of the gunpowder, which doesn't require oxygen, so it should fire like normal. The bullet would go really far if you point it in the right direction (for example, away from the Earth instead of toward it). But if you weren't supported, the low gravity might increase the recoil that you feel, and you might float away in the opposite direction of the bullet.

Answer 5

If you fired a gun from Earth orbit, the bullet would only take up an elliptical orbit around the Earth because no firearm ever made has a muzzle velocity to reach escape velocity.
Escape velocity is 7miles per second or 36960 ft/sec
Orbital velocity is 5 miles per second or 26400 ft/sec
Difference = 10560ft/sec
highest muzzle velocity of any rifle is 4000 ft/sec

Answer 6

Yes. I think you would want to do it very carefully. With some kind of remote device. As the bullit exited the barrel the gun would be forced to the rear and cause you to spin or be pushed away. If there was nothing holding you in place you would go off into space. ( as in bye bye )

Answer 7

Youd fire the gun, you would go back words, the bullet would go out. Neither movement would be all that quick. so your not gonna go anime style and stay still while you never even see the bullet. oh and the bullet whould keep going on and on, never stoping, until meeting a star of some sort, and melt/disintegrate.

Answer 8

i'm gonna say no. From the attitude of a bullet firing, particular i could assume the bullet to fire. yet i think of handguns are no longer made for vacuum and temperatures of area. i could assume the lubricants to reason all varieties of problems, no longer to show the subject concerns with the metals.

Answer 9

yes fire can go in space

Answer 10

Yes. I saw it on Armageddon.