Comments by "geodkyt" (@geodkyt) on "Zielfeuergerät 38 Blank-Firing Training Aid" video.

  1. I wonder if this would even be considered a "firearm" by ATF rules, or if it would be classified along with starter pistols and the BFONG (Blank Firing Only Non-Gun) MGs made for reenacting. I mean, there is no chance it will work with live ammo without blowing itself up (although the overly heavy construction means the guy pulling the lanyard probably wouldn't get injured if he screwed up and loaded ball... I wonder if that was part of the reason it was so overbuilt), and case law indicates that guns that will destroy themselves on firing aren't legally "guns" because they can't be used as such - key case involving the courts ruling felon in possession laws didn't apply to an extermination bait trap that used a .38 revolver case with a primer to fire a cyanide capsule down the throat of a coyote... the Court said that, since even the ATF agent testifying said he wouldn't dare fire it from the hand with an actual off the shelf ball round, it wasn't a "gun" despite using an explosion to propellent a projectile.
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  2. Literally just what it sounds like. Wooden bullets are the easiest, cheapest way to get blank rounds that will feed like ball (bevause you can precisely profile the bullet the same), extract and eject like ball (no worries about an ejection port being too short to handle a crimped blank that has blow the crimp open - while this is usually only a problem with blank adapted pistols, it can be a concern if your ejection port is just long enough for the expected length of a ball round, but your brimmed blanks are crimped so the unfired length is the same as a live ball round), and are relatively easy to adapt the action to cycle in most autoloading designs - the wooden bullet provides a bit of a gas seal to help functioning in a way crimped blanks do not. Shredders just make sure the bullet breaks up at the muzzle, just in case - even though most of the bullets break up normally even without shredders (but shredders ENSURE they break up immediately, reducing the hazard potential downrange to about the same as crimped blanks, instead of risking the Black Swan event of a bullet staying together long enough to actually injure someone). Most countries used these in the first half of the 20th Century (sometimes alongside crimped blanks, sometimes instead of). Here's an example of some Israeli produced wood tip blanks. https://www.polygunbag.com/.308%20Wooden%20tip%20blanks%20larger%20view.html
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