A blank round can actuate the recoil slide just he same. Smoke, barrel flash everything. We used them in M-16 during training exercises in the AF with Miles gear. Fully operated the weapon exactly the same.
The best approach would be to make blank a non-standard caliber and modify the chambers to take that and not fit a normal round. Maybe a business opportunity there for gunsmiths.
That's what I meant. Prop guns that fire blanks.
I think the reason why they don't make special guns is that it would be super expensive to make all of the different types of historical guns that they use in westerns and other movies.
So blank rounds are used in re4al guns. At least that's my understanding.
But going back to Alec Baldwin, he was the producer. He also was the guy who pointed it and fired it at a person. I don't know how he can escape responsibility.,
Like I said, actors are supposed to know not to EVER point a gun at anyone. A gun that fires blanks. They're supposed to be treated as real guns - and that was actually made clear after rules were changed after Brandon Lee was killed by a blank.
