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Given that their main and really only purposes is violently exploding, you might be surprised to learn that most explosives utilised by the military are shockingly stable. So much so, in fact, that, contrary to what is often depicted in movies and video games, plastic explosives like C-4 won’t explode if you shoot them or set them on fire. In fact, C-4 won’t even explode if you shoot it while it is currently on fire.
Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2019/03/can-shooting-plastic-explosive-really-set-them-off/
Sources:
https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/gun-vs-grenade
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hU2bCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA42&dq=trench+gun+trap+shooting+grenades&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi9jZ6l4vPaAhWmCcAKHQ54AhcQ6AEINjAD#v=onepage&q=trench%20gun%20trap%20shooting%20grenades&f=false
https://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/mythbusters/videos/really-no-explosion
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2005/12/if_you_shoot_a_bomb_will_it_explode.html
https://science.howstuffworks.com/c-42.htm
http://www.lexpev.nl/downloads/tm91300214militaryexplosives.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279680/
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.3686378
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_explosive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)
https://www.npr.org/templates/sto
