A Golden Gun

Hmmm Golden Bullets............could be deadly......but how to make them rupture?

And a gun out of pure gold would be bad?

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Did you just see "The Last King of Scotland"? I think Idi Amin had a gold-plated AK. Gold bullets would work very well, but obviously they would be ridiculously expensive. There are many gold-plated guns out there. The operative parts, as people have been saying, still need to be steel, but gold-plating is simple, you could even do it yourself.

 

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No more deadly than any other bullet.

Over weight, under strength and too expensive.

 

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which is more dense..gold or lead?

 

Gold. Density of lead is 11.35 g/cm^3, gold is19.3 g/cm^3 - not far from twice as much.

 

The density of tungsten is virtually the same (to three decimal places) as the density of gold. Tungsten is surpassed only by depleted uranium for high density penetrators, but gold isn't as hard.

 

Damn that looks sick. I was thinking of a pistol, but shit that AK is pure style!

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Well from what I've read it seems a Golden bullet would pierce you, but not damage much rather than just passing through you and the guy behind you. Still must be a way to make it work.

 

DU was 18.1 last time I found a figure - it's used for its pyrophoric properties as much as its density.
(And self-sharpening features IIRC).

 

Close, it's 18.9 which is less than gold. (Sorry, spidergoat.)