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To: LS
Not smart. Decompression DOES occur, depending on the gun. You cannot guarantee someone will not carry the "wrong" gun on. (Gee, that would be "gun control"). It is one thing for a crew member to be armed. But your gun goes off in your home or shed, maybe you get hurt, maybe you die. It discharges accidentally in the air, 250 people or more die. Not smart.

Funny in W.W.II The Japanese fighters shot 20mm’s into B-29 s and they did not blow up Just made the air inside leak out faster. And now there are handguns bigger than that now. I must have missed those.

It is possible for a handgun to cause explosive decompression. But it would need to hit a window. AND cause it to blowout. and this would not cause the plane to go down. Just everyone’s ears to pop. Aircraft have had this happen in flight. And have landed safely landed.

One of the tests they do when designing a craft is to shoot large harpoons about 5 ft across in to the pressurized fuselage to see that it don’t blow up.

17 posted on 10/15/2001 4:08:08 PM PDT by quietolong
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To: quietolong
Touche' The myth of "Explosive Decompression" is just that, a myth.
24 posted on 10/15/2001 4:37:37 PM PDT by elbucko
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