when you shoot a gun in th air, what happens to the bullet? When it comes down, can it still kill you?
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never shooot a gun in the air. a bullet never has a name on it!! i wouldnt even shoot at the ground, it could bounce off a rock or something. stick to targets, much safer!
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A BULLET if you get caught. LOL
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If you are shot, you could live.\n   If you are assasinated, you are dead.\n   Getting shot could be an attemped assasination.
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Newton's third law of motion - every action has an equal and opposite reaction. So the bullet firing out the front of the gun makes the gun go backwards an equal and opposite amount. Since the bullet weighs less than the gun, the gun does not kick back as fast as the bullet, but it does with the same force. This is why with powerful rifles and shotguns, you are supposed to keep the butt of the gun tight against your shoulder - so the kickback is transmitted smoothly into your body, instead of slamming into your shoulder and causing bruising.
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All can kill you...\n\nCigarrettes will kill you slowly...\n\nImmigrants can kill you if they shoot you with the 20 machine guns after they get "high" on the 20 kilos of heroin...\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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No, it falls back down at its terminal velocity(maybe), which is slower than the muzzle velocity because of drag.\n\nThe bullet leaves the gun with a given amount of kinetic energy: 1/2*m*v^2 where m is the mass of the bullet and v is its initial velocity.\n\nAir has non-zero viscosity, which is a resistance to shear forces.  When the bullet flies through the air, it drags air along with it.  This gives some of the bullet's energy surrounding air, reducing the bullet's velocity and kinitic energy.  Drag forces between fluids and solids occur in the direction opposite their relative motion.  (If the fluid is stationary and the bullet is moving, the drag is in the opposite direction of the bullet's motion.  If the fluid is moving and the object is stationary, the drag on the solid is in the direction of the fluid motion.)\n\nSimultaneously with drag, gravity is applying a force toward earth.  This too reduces the bullet's velocity and kinetic energy.  However, as the bullet flies higher into the air it gains an equal amount of potential energy from gravity.\n\nThe net result is that the bullet is always losing energy in flight because of drag.  This means that the amount of potential energy at the top is less than the initial kinetic energy, and it is thus impossible for the bullet to be going at the same speed it was shot when it hits the ground.\n\nThe fastest an object will fall under the influence of gravity is the terminal velocity.  At this velocity, the force of drag (which increases with the size of the object's profile, the viscosity and density of the fluid, and the relative velocity of the solid and the fluid) exactly balances the gravitational force.
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Guns don't kill people. People kill people.\n\nOur Founding Fathers gave us the right to bear arms.\n\nWhile I myself do own a gun, it is still our right to own one.
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From your point of view on the plane (as well as the point of view of any other aircraft traveling the same speed and the same direction), the velocity of the projectile will appear to be the same whether fired forward or backward. However, the velocity will drop off faster when fired forward from the plane than it would on the ground due to the increased wind resistance produced by the head wind.\n\nFrom the point of view of someone on the ground, the speed of the bullet would be added to the speed of the plane when fired forward and subtracted from the plane when fired backward.\n\nUltimately, the velocity of any object is relative to the reference frame of the observer.
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If nothing else, it is an interesting question.\n\nMost weapons wouldnt behave all that different, however, you may have to use them more carefully on Mars.\n\nMars only has about 1/3 the gravity on Earth and only about 1/100 th of the air pressure [I use the term "air" pressure to mean the atmospheric pressure, not necesarily air].\n\nBullets would be able to go farther due to the reduced gravity and reduced air pressure (less air resistance).  You would be able to shoot an arrow much further for the same reason.\nA sword would feel lighter in your hands, making it easier to wield.\n\n\nEDIT:\n-Rodri-, how so?  Why would the recoil be stronger?\nWhen firing a gun, the recoil is due to Newton's third law and the law of conservation of momentum.  How would less gravity effect the recoil?\nThe only thing I could think of would be that the acceleration of the bullet while in the chamber would be greater as the net force is greater since their is less air pressure for the bullet to be accelerated into.  I think this might be neglible though due to the extreamly short time the bullet in the barrel and the tiny mass the bullet has anyway.\n\n\njojo21,\nthe propellant used in most all guns and ammunition already has the Oxygen chemically added in the powder.  The classic example of this is gun powder, or gun powder-like propellants used today in amminition.  There is an oxidizer in the chemical (such as KNO3) that will supply all the Oxygen needed for the reaction.  Virtually nothing is needed from the surrounding "air".
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according to the tv show mythbusters bullets shot straight in the air will fall side ways and land into the ground about 2 inches,how ever the force of the falling bullet is not powerful enough to penetrate the skull. there have been stories of people being hit(and even killed) by bullets fired into the air,but they were fired at an angle less than 90 degrees and traveled over a mile away, the bullet was not free falling but instead coming straight at the person because of the trajectory it fired from.
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Normally you can't fire a bullet in space. Theres no air to burn with the powder.\n\nAssuming you do though, theres nothing to slow the bullet down, it would travel the same speed as it did on earth, and actually further as there is no friction or gravity to slow it down.
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He shot down a jet-powered drone, yes. Not that difficult, really. The drone was relatively small, and the weapon likely had very hard bullets loaded. Jets and attack helicopters have been brought down by a single shot - it's lucky, but it can happen.
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If is really no wind, it should fall right back into your gun.\n\nBut an experimental proof I think can hardly be done because of friction effects between air and bullet: so you would need an evacuated tube of some 100 m height, higher than any building. And the accuracy of this tube also woud be hard to be realized.\n\nNevertheless, such an accuracy problem I think was encountered when was built the SLAC (STANFORD Linear Accelerator) in the 1950ies; but this installation was not upright.
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if you shot a gun from a car, does the bullet come out any slower??? no, the speed of your travel adds to the speed...
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Why? You want to shoot up or something?? That can kill you. Fyi.
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The way your question is worded, there is absolutely no reason why not.  A bullet is a solid object.  A snake is a solid object.  Whether the snake is on land or in water, a bullet that has been shot from a gun has the potential to hit it.  The only reason bullet could not hit something (assuming it's close enough) is if the object were not a solid object or if there is something in the way to stop the bullet from hitting.\n\nA lot of snakes swim on the very top of water (I'm curious to know if there are any that are capable of swimming underwater).  Therefore, what is to stop a bullet from hitting it?  Perhaps you mean hit is the penetrate sense.  Perhaps you are thinking that even if the snake were "hit" with the bullet, the bullet would just push the snake into the water instead of going through it.  Or maybe you are thinking of the snake as underneath the water.  In that case, perhaps the water would slow the bullet down so much that it wouldn't hit.  That is definitely true if the snake is in deep water and you are shooting from the surface.
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Its depends on the action and reaction law.\n\n-the action in the machine gun is to move the gun trigger and then  gun hammer to hit the bullet to make the action and the fire.\n\n-The reaction now goes on two ways the first the bullet to the target ! the second is to push the gun hammer spring back to be ready to hit the next bullets.\n\n-Every things with details and Simulation pic is at the Source