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Here’s How a Prop Gun Using Blanks Can Still Fire a Fatal Shot

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used as props.The reason a production would use a real gun is simple: Verisimilitude. As firearms instructor Dave Brown wrote for American Cinematographer magazine in 2019, real firearms add authenticity to close up shots.

Anyone who’s ever held a gun can confirm that a real gun looks, weighs and handles different from an inert prop.But, Brown noted, they also require experts on set to make sure they’re properly handled at all times.

That’s because a gun is still a gun, regardless of what’s in it. And that brings us to how a gun loaded with blanks can kill someone.The term “blank’ is a shorthand version of the full term, blank cartridge.

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