There's a Russian-made sawed-off shotgun on the ISS. You might think it rather useless in space (more bad things can come from using a gun in a spacecraft than the original problem), but the gun is actually there for what the astro/cosmonauts will encounter when they leave. Russia, long doing land-recovery (unlike the US' ocean landings) found that returning cosmonauts sometimes landed in places where the locals weren't so friendly...namely, wolves. Fans of post-apocalyptic stories might also reckon that terrorism, revolution, civil war, or zombie-creating viruses might also be a problem for future astronaut homecomings, too.
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