Sure, as part of shooting practice using dummy rounds along with real ammo make sense. Going to the range just to shoot dummy rounds or blanks? not so much.
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Maybe it's a paternity case and the plaintiff is alleging the defendant impregnated her at the range. His defense is that he was shooting blanks.
(I'll be here all week.)
@blues beat me to it. I've been firing blanks for about 20 years, but only at my private bedroom range.
Maybe your client meant wax bullets? Like what they use for cowboy fast draw? Maybe foam ear plug bullets? Not blanks, but also not normally lethal.
In my entire shooting “career”, I’ve fired exactly six .38 blanks. And while I’m not sure I’ve made it to the hundreds yet, at least tens of thousands of rounds of ball (FMJ) ammo.
I do not know of a single person who fires blanks for any sort of practice. Not saying they don’t exist...just never heard of it.
I've read before of a firearm being seized from a criminal type loaded with multiple different calibers of ammo. The quote was something along the lines of, "It doesn't matter, any bullet will work." My mind went straight to the bolded part above.
.32acp in a 9mm mag is certainly proof of low competence in handling firearms.
OTOH, this is a forum with a user base that is pretty precise about terminology. Maybe "blanks" meant something else, like "dummies," as others in the thread have postulated.
It usually takes me a few minutes(when I am talking to students who are low fluency)to pull out actual details of firearm stories I hear. I have to ask a lot of questions. Usually their "first pass" is fairly incoherent. It is possible something similar is happening here.
I don't know where to buy blanks, either. And I've been shooting for over 30 years.
Someone mentioned rimfire blanks earlier. Just to note, they are readily available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder-actuated_tool
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Tools-Po...s/N-5yc1vZc2b8
They are also what would typically be used in a non-projectile-firing "starter pistol." It's also possible to use them to fire a .22 airgun pellet from a .22 pistol as a breech-loading single shot, or so I've read.
Interesting detail that the .17 WSM cartridge came about because Winchester was making a .25 caliber rimfire blank for construction tools and decided to expand that production by developing an actual firearm cartridge.
Not terribly uncommon with criminals. I'd even say indicative of such activity, as opposed to simply being an ignorant but otherwise law abiding gun owner.
A garden-variety 9mm loaded with 32 and being referred to as a "Glock Fo-tay with dum dums that will go through a cops vest" is pretty stereotypical for the criminal subset of society.
I'm guessing the person in possession of this gun in question was on his way to church, minding his own business and dint'du'nuffin.