Maid of Honor takes a bullet...

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Speaking of Mythbusters. I saw it the other night when that episode came on. They were having a short marathon. They also did a piece on firing guns underwater. They mentioned there were a couple of guns, including the Glock 17 that can be fired underwater. They failed to mention that yes, a Glock 17 can be fired underwater, but it's a specially modified from the factory gun and should never ever be done. They also didn't mention that if you were underwater and tried to fire a gun, it would probably blow out your eardrums because of the pressure. I know they put the disclaimer at the beginning of the show, but I was pretty disappointed that they didn't remind viewers how dangerous that particular experiment was.

I dont think it was a special Glock. I believe it was a standard firearm, I could be wrong but I think their plan was to fire a normal gun. They did mention it will only fire once because the casing wont eject properly.

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gigag...

Go see Dr. Adair in the physics dept and get him to remind you that the bullet falling back is limited in it's speed by the pull of gravity, so it would not pass the origin at the same velocity as it was fired, even in a vacuum.