[UA] Risking it

[Cassady Toles]

  If the gun is just filled with blanks there's no risk.  The folks here
shot 
  me down for doing the blindfolded entropomancer with headphones cranked up

  crossing the road.  If there's just blanks, or if there are no cars coming

  there isn't a risk.

But if there's a reasonable likelihood that there could be ammo there is a
risk.  Andd (and if I have to say this again, I'm hunting all of you down). 
I don't care what Die Hard 2 had to say on the issue.  In a regular gun,
blanks can kill you.  Period, end of sentence.  The one's they use on stage
and in movies are plugged with molten copper.  Those blanks aren't
dangerous.  Flashers aren't dangerous.  The average handgun has a lethal
range of three feet with blanks and a dangerous one of 10 with blanks. 
Submachine guns about double these figures.  Rifles (especially assault
rifles like the AK-47 and the M-16A) can increase that sixfold.  I don't
care what you all say on this forum and think.  

I've had the firsthand experience of seeing military safety trainings
proving this by shooting coke cans with "unloaded" guns.

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