Shotgun Kept In Space Station

[OBXMIKE]

Think of what the RECOIL would do in zero grav....you'd go pinging around the space station like a pinball unless you were anchored to something......


Besides....everybody knows that to kill a martian, all you have to do is play Hank Williams music real loud....thier heads just explode....

 

[ABTOMAT]

Besides....everybody knows that to kill a martian, all you have to do is play Hank Williams music real loud....thier heads just explode....

I thought everybody did that...

 

[Working Man]

No one has started it so I will...

Clearly the 9mm is better than the .45 ACP in outer space.

Is no place is safe

 

[Master Blaster]

The .45 is better because it has higher momentum so its less likely to fall into a black hole, but then the 9mm is faster so it will get there first......

Of course you could use a 155 grain bullet for the .45...... so that would make the .45 better in every way...

 

[Red Tornado]

I think a 12" drilling w/ detachable stock is just too cool. I agree Baikal should be churning these things out. Even with the short barrel, I imagine 7.62x54 would still kill most things in your way.

Actually, why isn't Baikal making a normal size drilling? Surely they could do it at a reasonable cost, at least compared to extant drillings.
RT

 

[engineer151515]

Lupinushey man if I was stuck in a tin box in outer space with a few other guys lonley going stir crazy thousands of miles from the nearist Nevada licensed working girl house I'd want a gun too

You're in Florida. You ARE thousands of miles from the nearist Nevada licensed working girl house.

But at least you're not in a tin box ... right?

 

[GEM]

If you shoot someone in space, do you get sued in Galactic Civil Court?

Ayoob has an article with 10 cases of such happening in Space Guns and Aliens magazine.

Betcha the crew of the Nostromo in the first Aliens movie wish they had some of those Colonial marines guns from the second Aliens movie.

 

[1 old 0311]

The Russians program their ships to land on the ground. We program ours to land in the sea. Wonder if ours have spear guns

Kevin

 

[GEM]

The space shuttle lands in the sea? Are we going back to the capsules?

 

[Harry Tuttle]

Lev Andropov: Excuse me, but I think I know how to fix this.
Watts: Move it! You don't know the components!
Lev Andropov: [annoyed] Components. American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!

 

[Justin]

Besides....everybody knows that to kill a martian, all you have to do is play Hank Williams music real loud....thier heads just explode....

Slim Whitman, actually.

 

[Maxwell]

Are we going back to the capsules?

Actually, for the new moon shots it looks like we are.

 

[Fly320s]

Richard.Howe: Ever wonder how tight your shotgun's pattern would be at 3 light-years?

The pattern wouldn't spread because the wad would not release the pellets. No air resistance, you see, to pull the wad away from the shot.

Now, pull out your pocket supercomputer to determine the effects of all of the gravitational fields that will affect the shot.

 

[MrTwigg]

Waaaaay to cool !

Funniest thread I've read in a loooong time !

You can either call it a short barrled shotgun or detachable stock carbine

What about the BFK ?

 

[Kim]

I hate to say it but John Glenn is anti-gun. I forget which University has the John Glenn institute but if you google it you will find it has a Violence Prevention antgun program and you will find many names you recognize working there. Oh yeah he is a BiG DEM of coarse.

 

[JJohnston015]

I guess if you were a cosmonaut packing a piece under your spacesuit, it'd be a
.45 ACPCCCPCCW?

 

[bigray327]

Actually, for the new moon shots it looks like we are.

True, but the nominal landing sites for Constellation flights will likely be on land, in the continental United States.

 

[default]

Space station smoking area. Crazy 3-barrel space shotgun/carbine/machete, for wolf defense (!). I'm sorry, but sometimes Russians are just plain cool.

 

[Maxwell]

True, but the nominal landing sites for Constellation flights will likely be on land, in the continental United States.

...so what happens if they miss Vermont?

sometimes Russians are just plain cool.

Agreed, I miss the cold war.

 

[Kharn]

I'm suprised they didnt opt for an underfolding AK.

Kharn

 

[Mulliga]

"I like to keep this handy...for close encounters."

- Cpl. Dwayne Hicks

 

[AirPower]

I'm surprised no one mentioned this.

How to deal with OVER PENETRATION in the space station? You definitely don't want to poke a hole in the spacestation "wall".

 

[Maxwell]

Spacecraft walls, currently, are made of tinfoil and cloth.
Its a lost cause to worry about overpenitration since throwing a fork can kill everyone onboard.

 

[Brian Dale]

Kim, when they sent John Glenn back into space a few years ago, a lot of my friends were disgusted by such a blatant publicity stunt. Not me--I'd much rather have John Glenn in space than on the Senate floor. He causes less trouble when he's in space.

DJJ, good one.

On packing a shotgun in space: hey, it worked for Zoe; it works for me.

 

[Knob Creeker]

There was some talk about this over at subguns.com. Some one said that the firearm was a "Soviet/Russian TOZ TP-82 survival weapon. Basically a 12-inch (11.9 or saomething like that) drilling, two 20 gauge barrels over a 5.45x39mm rifle barrel." I have no clue, sound good to me.