Provided everything is working properly
Gun-powder doesn't explode, it burns rapidly. Same thing for gasoline in an engine, BTW. The fuel (gunpowder or gasoline/air) burns at a rapid, known rate. The burning fuel expands towards the path of least resistance, pushing the bullet down the barrel (or forcing the piston down in the case of an internal combustion engine). On rare occasions something goes wrong and there is an explosion. These are the catastrophic failures we hear about. The barrel splits, the cylinder grenades, ect... In an internal combustion engine we call, it pinging or detonation.
Robert
They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security." Benjamin Franklin
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms (within his own lands or tenements)." Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution (with his note added), 1776.
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