Timeline for Could you pick up a loaded gun five centuries from now and fire it?
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| Jul 15, 2016 at 4:34 | comment | added | Xandar The Zenon | Obviously not, I'll be long since dead. | |
| Jul 9, 2016 at 22:19 | answer | added | M.A. Golding | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 18:26 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @AndrewGrimm Mines are different than guns, in that they're designed to be left in the ground without maintenance for years with the expectation that they'll still be lethal. Guns are not designed to be used in this manner. It's also important to note that these stories aren't as cut and dry as you imply - the one you linked is about an unexploded WWII bomb detonating when people took a blowtorch to it. It's highly unlikely it would have functioned as a bomb, since neither the detonating charge nor trigger mechanism were designed to last 65 years. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 17:10 | comment | added | davidbak | Sure, if you've got a cannon that fires guns or other random chunks of metal. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 15:13 | answer | added | JoeG | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 14:09 | comment | added | TMN | You might want to make it clearer that you're talking about a gun loaded 500 years ago. My first thought was "Of course, just like we can pick up a loaded gun and fire it today." I was wondering if you were asking about future gun laws, or availability of "primitive" projectile weapons in the future. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 8:22 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | Some landmines from WWI are still killing people: history.stackexchange.com/questions/12305/… | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 7:58 | history | edited | Nzall | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 7, 2016 at 7:57 | comment | added | Nzall | Note that the second part of your question should have been asked as a new question, since it's not even tangentially related to guns. I'll edit it out for you for now, but keep in mind for future questions that the usual way to ask questions is only one at a time. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 7:25 | comment | added | Baldrickk | In "The 100" they used 100 year old weapons - that they found sealed in barrels of oil to prevent damage. They still didn't all work. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 7:05 | comment | added | AmiralPatate | I think we can formulate a general rule that any mechanical, chemical or electrical system abandonned for centuries isn't safe to use. | |
| Jul 7, 2016 at 5:23 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 23:37 | answer | added | MozerShmozer | timeline score: 28 | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 23:36 | answer | added | zzz | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 23:11 | answer | added | TrEs-2b | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 6, 2016 at 23:05 | history | asked | Z.Schroeder | CC BY-SA 3.0 |