The goal of movies and TV series is to make scenes look realistic. When it comes to prop guns, they don’t just look dangerous.

A prop gun — a firearm filled with blanks and used in the film industry to mimic live ammunition — may sound harmless, but it can be dangerous and even deadly, as was the case on the set of ...

The term 'prop gun' includes nonfunctioning guns and cap guns, but also real guns firing blank cartridges, which can pack a punch — and be fatal.

When a prop gun fired by Alec Baldwin killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza on the set of "Rust," it followed decades of other incidents.

An incident with a prop gun discharged by Alec Baldwin killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza. What is a prop gun?

Guns with blanks can still be deadly —actor Jon-Erik Hexum died after he fired a prop gun at his forehead on the set of Cover Up in 1984.

Armorers own the weapons themselves or rent them; Mike Tristano & Company in Los Angeles has a vast prop gun inventory that includes AK-47s in blank-firing, blank-adapted and nonfiring versions.

That’s because a gun is still a gun, regardless of what’s in it. And that brings us to how a gun loaded with blanks can kill someone.

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A prop gun can be a plastic one like Muldoon referenced that doesn’t fire, or a cap gun. Normally, according to the BBC, they are real weapons that have been modified to use blanks.

Soldier Shot During Special Forces Training Event After Live Ammo Mixed in with Blanks A U.S. Army infantryman grips his M249 light machine gun during Exercise Southern Vanguard 24 in Oiapoque ...

After gunning down a jogger from a car, the shooter complained, "I thought there was supposed to be blanks in the gun," a witness testified Tuesday.