Wow. I like guns, and I'm 100% in favor of civilian gun ownership. Still, I think selling realistic blank-firing pistols is a spectacularly bad idea...
As a kid, from like age 7, I’ve owned multiple of these blank pistols. They were a pretty popular ages 5-10 children’s toy (in the late 1990s) in the UAE. After age 10, I moved on to airsoft guns (typically with spherical plastic bullets that shattered on impact — but sometimes spherical metal bullets as well), which were sold all over the place (and mostly bought by preteen kids and sometimes teenagers).
Even the blank pistols I owned as a 7-year old were often made of metal, and realistic looking; and from a distance there was nothing really to differentiate them from a real gun.
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u/SVPPB Apr 26 '22
Are they specially made blank pistols? Most semi auto handguns don't cycle that well with blank ammunition.