This meant a system that used a blank firing replica gun, and a system to detect blank rounds being fired. Very cool, and the way he went about it includes some interesting electronics.

Britain’s gangsters are running out of guns and have turned to converted firearms following a crackdown on weapons, the ...

Owners of particular types of blank firing guns, which have become popular with ... alongside thousands of rounds of blank ...

The reason they are so convincing is that blanks are essentially modified ... adapted for firing blanks. Together they add authenticity to productions - fire a blank using a prop gun and you ...

Blank firing guns are produced for a number of reasons - such as for use in theatre or film, as starting pistols, or at firearms' demonstration events. Instead of firing bullets, they use ...

Also, non-firing ceremonial guns or race-starting pistols can be modified to fire bullets ... of deactivated weapons and conversion of blank-firing firearms are among the main sources of illegal ...