Since when are prop guns capable of firing live rounds?
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Prop revolvers are real revolvers and use prop blanks with caps in front of the blanks because you can see into the cylinder and you would see there are blanks in it. the movie is a wester so they likely didnt have semi-auto pistols. Afaik, the fake cap can sometimes get launched by the blank firing.
The real question is why did he aim a gun at somebody and fire it. with todays cgi tech theres never a reason to do this. especially considering most cinematographers wouldnt want to fire a blank gun at someone just for a silly scene that could be filmed from infinite angles.
Also rubber bullets are loaded into casings with a primer but no powder, the primer alone can generate enough pressure to launch the rubber bullet.
However I thought one of the reasons they just add CGI muzzle flashes so much nowadays was to take these accidents out of the equation. I think on John Wick even some scenes are using are airsoft replicas and they add muzzle flash and ejected casings with CGI, Keanu does train with real guns though hence it looks so authentic.
Blanks alone can kill. Large muzzle flash. A lot of force out of Barrell. Killed John Erik Hexum
And Brandon Lee.
Ever see "In Bruges"? In one scene Colin Farrel disarms an attacker to find the revolver has blanks in it, when the attacker tries to take it back he gets shot in the face point blank with the blanks and is shown to be permanently blinded in that eye later in the film.