If someone was holding onto someone's arm and the other person fired a 9mm round into them, would they still?!
Question: If someone was holding onto someone's arm and the other person fired a 9mm round into them, would they still.?
be able to hang onto the arm or would the force of the shot push them away.Health Question & Answer
Answers:
You're asking whether or not a 9mm round fired at pretty much point blank range have enough momentum to knock a person back, right.?
When a 9mm round is fired, the bullet is propelled forward because of expanding gases. At the same time the shell casing is propelled backwards (towards the person firing) at much greater speed and has the same kinetic energy (momentum) as the bullet. That is what you feel as recoil when you fire the weapon. This is because of newton's 3rd law:Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
The recoil on a 9mm is usually nothing more than a jerk on the arm, it's not enough to knock you off your feet which means that the bullet also does not have enough momentum to knock someone else off their feet.
So to answer your question: No, the force of the BULLET will not knock them back.
What will make you let go of the person's arm is the loud noise of a shot being fired, the fact that you've just been shot or just the fact that somebody is shooting at you.
If you have a lot of willpower (you're in a fight for the gun and you have to win..) yes, you can hold on, but being wounded would severely impair your fighting abilities. In fact, if your fighting for the gun, you probably will do your best to stay as close as possible to the gun, even after being shot to control where the barrel is pointed and avoid being shot again. Fear of death is an awesome motivator...Health Question & Answer
When a 9mm round is fired, the bullet is propelled forward because of expanding gases. At the same time the shell casing is propelled backwards (towards the person firing) at much greater speed and has the same kinetic energy (momentum) as the bullet. That is what you feel as recoil when you fire the weapon. This is because of newton's 3rd law:Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
The recoil on a 9mm is usually nothing more than a jerk on the arm, it's not enough to knock you off your feet which means that the bullet also does not have enough momentum to knock someone else off their feet.
So to answer your question: No, the force of the BULLET will not knock them back.
What will make you let go of the person's arm is the loud noise of a shot being fired, the fact that you've just been shot or just the fact that somebody is shooting at you.
If you have a lot of willpower (you're in a fight for the gun and you have to win..) yes, you can hold on, but being wounded would severely impair your fighting abilities. In fact, if your fighting for the gun, you probably will do your best to stay as close as possible to the gun, even after being shot to control where the barrel is pointed and avoid being shot again. Fear of death is an awesome motivator...Health Question & Answer