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You originally replied to my post of the video about the Girandoni Air Rifle stating that airguns would not work in space since space doesn't have air. I pointed out that it could work in space since it had a pressurized air tank, but it could be hard to work the action. Since the air tank is...

One cool gun is the Gyrojet Gun. It's more of a ballistic rocket launcher since it fires 13mm thrust vector gyro stabilized rockets out of a smooth bore barrel with an open chamber. It was marketed to the military since it wold work underwater and in space and had little to no recoil. It would...

Conventional firearms will work in space. The USSR's Almaz program was a manned spy space station program before they developed the technology for spy satellites. They were armed with a 23mm autocannon mounted on the belly of the craft and had 32 rounds of ammo. OPS-2 was included in the Salyut...

If the air tank could withstand the added stress from no atmospheric pressure on the outside of the tank, then it should work fine in the vacuum of space. Then again that's only a 14 pounds per square inch difference. Now the big problem I could see is loading rounds into the chamber, since it...

They drank all their beer, so they're liberating a huge freighter of it's cargo hold full of beer.