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There isn't a gun that works worse at close range.
Long guns aren't great at shooting somebody who's currently grappling you because it would be hard to get the barrel pointed at them, but that's about it.
Do grenade launchers count as guns?
You could absolutely shoot somebody point blank with a grenade launcher and get them. Might get you to, but it would work just fine.
Actually, no. Weapons like the RPG only arm a certain distance away from the launcher, to protect the operator in the event the warhead detonates prematurely.
Of course, the blunt force impact would probably do the job alone.
"Rocket Propelled Anything" is probably going to hurt a ton if it hits you directly, whether it explodes or not.
There is one... but it's incredibly rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet
Technically it fires very small rockets.
FTFY
There isn't a gun "alive" in the first place. Bad faith argument.
i mean, yeah? it was never intended to be a serious argument in the first place.
Eh. There IS a gun that works worse at close range, but it is very much not in production and its ammo is very, very hard to source.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrojet
In that sense, you could say it's a dead gun.
Wiki says it's a rocket launcher. That's not the same thing as a gun.
It's an RPB!
It's pistol-sized, pistol-shaped, and it fires projectiles. It's effectively a gun. The projectiles just happen to be self-propelled instead of having a casing with gunpowder.
There might be some edge cases where a round going fast enough to exit a target would impart less energy than a shower round that completely stops inside the target
Probably not the case with a hunting rifle though