• skozzii@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Blanks do exist… why use real bullets, that’s just stupid at the highest levels.

    • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 hours ago

      Blanks may not properly cycle the action. I know this isn’t a real concern for celebrations, but it does put a damper on the fun when you have to rack the charging handle after every round.

      But life is cheap, I guess…

    • Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      15 hours ago

      Blanks require you to buy them, in a lot of these places you already have a pile of spare Soviet or local ammo at home.

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        13 hours ago

        I mean, it’s a wedding.

        If part of your culture is firing guns in the air as celebration, I might not get it, but I can support that it’s a cultural tradition.

        That being said, some people do fireworks in the US to celebrate weddings, it’s not like they have a pile of old gunpowder that they just set off in the middle of the crowd. Guests, or the couple, will supply the celebratory munitions. I feel like the host could have just bought a crate of common caliber blanks and left it in a corner.

    • jimmy90@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      imagine shooting 100 arrows directly up in the air and just standing there

      it’s that level of stupid