No recoil! Amazing!
No ball used, just powder. They are liberals trying hard.
“No recoil! Amazing!” [Lonesome in Massachusetts, post 34]
Beyond amazing; physically impossible.
Blank charges generate some recoil, but only a little compared to a live round: total mass ejected from the gun barrel would be only a tiny fraction of that when a live round is fired.
Heavy blank charges generate perceptible recoil in some guns. Standard powder charge for the US M1795 musket (69 cal) was 186 grains - about half the weight of a 7.62mm NATO round. Charge the pan, pour the rest down the barrel, ram the cartridge paper on top of it. When you touch it off you know it.
Your post #42 on the NYT retraction was excellent, and still relevant decades after. I’ve met folks possessed of multiple advanced degrees and commercial pilot ratings, who still cannot believe a rocket will work in outer space, because “there’s nothing to push against.” Some of those degrees were in aeronautics.