Do Guns Work In Space

Well just like how body armor has changed the ergonomic requirements of modern firearms a pressure suit would too.
Do guns work in space. However modern ammunition comes with its own oxidiser chemical that can trigger the explosion of gunpowder so all this space bound gunplay kind of makes sense sort of. The gun in space may even work slightly better according to frank heile a physicist at stanford. You can probably expect all space guns of the future to adopt the mitten friendly saber type trigger guard like this one. A conventional firearm would under most circumstances work perfectly well in space.
And if you think that fire can t burn in the oxygen free vacuum of space you re absolutely right. Such films could even have some basis in fact because shooting a gun in space would certainly work though not quite like it does on earth. In space the bullet will be free of the need to push and compress the air in the gun barrel on its way out of the gun. It s true that there s no oxygen in the abyss of space but the firing of a gun doesn t depend on oxygen even here on earth.
Since there s no air to. Air resistance will not be a problem to slow down the bullet travel. For decades the standard survival pack for russian cosmonauts has included a gun. But this doesn t mean you should shoot things in space with bullets.
Modern ammo contains its own oxidizer a chemical that triggers the explosive needed to fire a bullet. In fact the gun will work even work ever so slightly better in outer space because the bullet won t have to push and compress the air in the barrel as it exits the gun. But if you do get some. Guns do actually get carried to space though not quite to the void between galaxies.
Or rather it does but not on the oxygen in the atmosphere.