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7. Handguns In Space... As Part Of An Astronaut's "Emergency Kit"

The potential for laser guns to be used in space has already been discussed, but both Russians and Americans have flown up into orbit with handheld firearms - and often still do.

Supposedly part of an astronaut or cosmonaut's "emergency kit", the purpose of the weapon was originally incase, when re-entering the Earth's atmosphere, the spacecraft flew off course and crash-landed in the middle of nowhere. In order to protect themselves, from both animals and humans, the astronauts were given guns to carry.

Soviet cosmonauts carried the TP-82 pistol (pictured above) between 1986 and 2006 - and it had an effective firing range of an impressive 200metres, meaning the possibility of firing it at another human was not totally beyond the realms of possibility...