A horrific tragedy occurred Thursday on the New Mexico set of the upcoming western, “Rust,” when the film’s cinematographer, 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins, was killed, and director Joel Souza gravely ...

The phrase “shooting blanks” has passed into colloquialism. But, literally speaking, what does it mean to shoot blanks? And why can people who get shot with blank ammunition still die? We’ll explain ...

In a regular gun, a charge fires the projectile that is a bullet. "Blanks" refer to a blank cartridge that usually consists of a shell or casing and gunpowder, but no bullet. Instead there is a tip ...

Hundreds of blank firing pistols shipped to the United States from Turkey were seized last week by U.S. Customs officials at Washington Dulles International Airport. The firearms, some of which could ...

Alec Baldwin was involved in a tragic shooting on the set of his latest movie yesterday. It’s impossible at this point to draw any hard conclusions about precisely what went wrong. But whatever the ...