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They are just jealous kwerk because we are not afraid to take a stand and protect our selves and not be a victim.
We face our fears and nightmare scenarios on daily basis without a blink.
We stand danger in the face with a smile.
We are winners.
We face our fears and nightmare scenarios on daily basis without a blink.
We stand danger in the face with a smile.
We are winners.
Counting the days until this dude is banned.
There will soon be a website like this
http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/
But it will be
http://www.isarekgreenman888bannedyet.co.uk/
No, you're mentally unstable.
The reason Kwerk as many people have pointed out is due to the reaction caused by the powder, i.e it creates lots of heat and gas rather than simply exploding, thus forcing the bullet out of the case via preasure rather than explosive force which would most likely rip apart the casing, the gun and presumable a sizeable portion of the person firing it.
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Make sure you have liability insurance to cover the claims for hands blown off but I suspect you knew your idea was as much use as an inflatable dartboard before you posted.
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Or infact not, rail guns exist.
True however their operation does not involve explosives, there is no reason that a conventional gun require a barrel "involving magnets".
When you're talking about pure rate of fire then you're really starting to look into other sources of propellant or other methods of loading or holding ammunition. The manual or automatic removal of spent cartridges doesimpose a limit on how fast a weapon can fire.
Eletrically fired weapons that stack rounds in the barrel itself which can then be fired individually or very quickly can result in an RPM rate of up to 1 million rounds per minute!
That Dodgy bald headed psycho in the Discovery series Future Weapons explains it all.
Eletrically fired weapons that stack rounds in the barrel itself which can then be fired individually or very quickly can result in an RPM rate of up to 1 million rounds per minute!
That Dodgy bald headed psycho in the Discovery series Future Weapons explains it all.
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I suppose that in theory you could use an explosive to provide the force and a railgun-like assembly of magnets to direct the bullet...maybe. It would be better to just use a railgun for the whole thing, but it might be possible to make a bombrailgun.
Kwerk's question reminded me of the idea of using explosives instead of petrol in internal combustion engines. That doesn't work either, for many of the same reasons.
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Actually all explosions are a solid or liquid converting to gas at high speed. What is different between different explosives, and propellants, is the speed that they do it. Gunpowder does it quite slowly, TNT does is very fast. Some compounds (like nitrocellulose) burn at a rate proportional to the pressure exerted, so burn much faster in a confined space (in the open air it just goes "phut"). High explosives will blow a gun apart because the reaction is over before the bullet has a chance to move, and the over-pressure blows the weapon open. Even if the breech was strong enough to survive, the bullet would blow apart rather than be forced forward in a(semi)controlled manner.
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Where I live there is zero, absolutely zero gun crime or need to own one for self defence. I like guns though
Or even better; you could fire a gun out of a bigger gun and have that fire a bullet at twice the speed!