Quick question on Gauss weapon recoil.

  Just a quick question that someone better versed in physics than I can
answer.  Why do guass rifles/pistols have a recoil value at all?
As I understand it, a rifle that uses gunpowder has recoil because of the
expanding gasses pushing back against the breach of the weapon (with the
equal but opposite force shoving the bullet down the barrel).

  A guass rifle works by pulling the bullet down the barrel with an
electromagnetic field.  Thus, no pressure agains the breech.  I'm I missing
something really basic here?

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Mark Urbin  Racal-Interlan   Boxborough, MA  These opinions are mine.
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the people choose that they be." -U.S. Supreme Court in Westbrook v. Mihaly
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