> Maybe in case they land in a bad neighborhood or wilderness? Exactly this, and this is why it was a Soviet/Russian practice - their spacecraft make ground la

> Maybe in case they land in a bad neighborhood or wilderness? Exactly this, and this is why it was a Soviet/Russian practice - their spacecraft make ground landings, instead of splashing down at sea. In fact, when the Voskhod 2 navigation system failed, it landed in a wilderness area so remote the men on board had to spend two nights in the snow before rescue. One of these cosmonauts was Alexei Leonov, who went on to a leadership position in the cosmonaut program: the survival gun was his initiative.