Gunpowder provides it's own oxygen, so it doesn't need any air in order to burn.
So a gun would fire on the moon. Assuming that ultralow temps wouldn't prevent the primer from firing.
The bullet would go as far as it was able to before the moons gravity pulled it back down. If it was going fast enough, it could escape the moons gravity (since there is no air resistance) and continue on into space forever (or until it hit something else).
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