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FormerGraveheart 6 points ago +6 / -0

You don't need any oxygen in the casing whatsoever. All gunpowders contain their own oxidizers: potassium nitrate in the case of the long obsolete blackpowder, and more modern smokeless powders are all nitrated compounds, usually the majority being nitrocellulose.