# Thursday, February 17, 2011
By: Joe Huffman Thursday, February 17, 2011 7:02:11 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00) ( Gun Fun )

Via email from Ry is this web page on experiments with both black powder and smokeless powder where the experimenter fails to get ignition of gun powder with static electricity.

I wouldn’t count on static electricity not igniting the powder but if you were hoping to use it as an ignition source you probably would be disappointed.