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Didn't he miss a rules of physics? "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". So if a bullet was capable of knocking it's victim backwards 6', the force of it exiting the firearm would knock the shooter back six feet.
Assuming shooter and shootee weighed the same.
From the same article:
Conclusion
And, oh, by the way, they also dont drive a full-grown man back five or six feet. Simple physics tell us that a body in motion will tend to stay in motion.