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Why not fire blanks? One must be a real idiot to be firing live rounds into the air.

mikewarot 4y ago
Just as all guns are loaded, all blanks are real bullets. (Metaphorical truths, you live longer if you act like they are true) Blanks can kill too, by the way. Why not just use fire crackers?
- dudeinjapan 4y ago
  Because firecrackers can kill too. Nothing is any fun anymore.
Ekaros 4y ago
Blanks are complicated. Many types of weapons rely on pressure in barrel to cycle the action, without a bullet this pressure doesn't go high enough. So blank firing guns are likely modified in one way or an other.
- mrguyorama 4y ago
  You probably ALSO don't need to mag dump into the sky, so a blank not being able to adequately cycle your weapon probably shouldn't be a big issue?
- the_third_wave 4y ago
  That is why you put a stop on the muzzle - the red thing with a hole in it you might have seen or even used if you were in the military - so that enough pressure is built up to cycle the action. Another function of the stop is to catch any small bits of plastic from the blank rounds which might otherwise be ejected at eye-piercing speed.
exhilaration 4y ago
I was going to say, where do you even find blanks and I bet they're more expensive than normal ammo but no, you can easily order them online like this random example: https://greencountryammo.com/9mm-BLANK-Ammunition-DAG-100-rounds-Bulk-IN-STOCK_p_1376.html https://greencountryammo.com/9mm-BLANK-Ammunition-DAG-100-ro... and they're only 2/3rds the cost of target ammunition.
z9znz 4y ago
> One must be a real idiot to be firing live rounds into the air. Yeah, and that's exactly the kind of person who would point a gun with (hopefully) a blank at a friend and pull the trigger as a joke. Unfortunately for the friend, that concussive force still might kill them. The better approach is to keep guns out of the hands of untrained, non-professionals. And since most people don't have a professional need to shoot guns, that means most people shouldn't ever touch a gun.
rufus_foreman 4y ago
Well they do that around here. Still want to gentrify my neighborhood?
- dudeinjapan 4y ago
  All the celebratory bullets keep flying over into my neighborhood, so yeah.

Just as all guns are loaded, all blanks are real bullets. (Metaphorical truths, you live longer if you act like they are true) Blanks can kill too, by the way. Why not just use fire crackers?

dudeinjapan 4y ago
Because firecrackers can kill too. Nothing is any fun anymore.

Ekaros 4y ago

Blanks are complicated. Many types of weapons rely on pressure in barrel to cycle the action, without a bullet this pressure doesn't go high enough. So blank firing guns are likely modified in one way or an other.

mrguyorama 4y ago
You probably ALSO don't need to mag dump into the sky, so a blank not being able to adequately cycle your weapon probably shouldn't be a big issue?
the_third_wave 4y ago
That is why you put a stop on the muzzle - the red thing with a hole in it you might have seen or even used if you were in the military - so that enough pressure is built up to cycle the action. Another function of the stop is to catch any small bits of plastic from the blank rounds which might otherwise be ejected at eye-piercing speed.

exhilaration 4y ago

I was going to say, where do you even find blanks and I bet they're more expensive than normal ammo but no, you can easily order them online like this random example: https://greencountryammo.com/9mm-BLANK-Ammunition-DAG-100-rounds-Bulk-IN-STOCK_p_1376.html https://greencountryammo.com/9mm-BLANK-Ammunition-DAG-100-ro... and they're only 2/3rds the cost of target ammunition.

z9znz 4y ago

> One must be a real idiot to be firing live rounds into the air. Yeah, and that's exactly the kind of person who would point a gun with (hopefully) a blank at a friend and pull the trigger as a joke. Unfortunately for the friend, that concussive force still might kill them. The better approach is to keep guns out of the hands of untrained, non-professionals. And since most people don't have a professional need to shoot guns, that means most people shouldn't ever touch a gun.

rufus_foreman 4y ago

Well they do that around here. Still want to gentrify my neighborhood?

dudeinjapan 4y ago
All the celebratory bullets keep flying over into my neighborhood, so yeah.