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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Thanks for taking the time.
gpt
No problem. I also thought it would be helpful to clarify:

A blank is something you need a real, working gun to fire from. It has the 'gunpowder' but not a bullet. This is useful for if you want to actually shoot a gun, make a more or less realistic gunshot sound, and also that it creates recoil which makes the actor firing it look realistic on camera.

But you don't point this at people. Firstly, it's a real gun, if you make a mistake and load a live round you definitely kill someone, but even blanks can be dangerous at close range, the gases and potentially some metal fragments are still flying out of there.

A blank is very easy to tell apart from any other round, because it has no bullet.

A dummy round on the other hand is a round that has a bullet but no 'gunpowder'. It's made specifically to look like a proper round, so an untrained person will easily be able to mistake them. This is useful if you want to film a scene of someone loading a gun, or with guns like revolves where the cylinders are visible you want to show on camera that the gun is loaded.

But in this case, if you plan to point the gun at anyone, it can be a replica. That is physically incapable of firing anything. So you can't accidentally shoot anyone with it.