Older blank rounds particularly low pressure black powder era rounds can and do have cardboard and wax sealed fronts that are flat and look very similar to wad cutters of the same era rimmed shells. Crimps are to keep same over all outer dimensions so semi automatics will feed them from a magazine. Those are actually more dangerous to shoot at someone since it’s not uncommon for a petal or two to come off and shoot out the end of the gun. Thin paper and wax is disintegrated by the heat and pressure. This is the reason in the service before they went to blue.sim rounds you.never shot blanks directly at someone.
So, the average person can’t tell lead from wax? The simple fact is that any supposedly grown man who takes the word of a 23 year-old tatted-up TikTok skank that the gun is safe, and then shoots at someone, is not a responsible adult. Baldwin is a punk. I check and clear any gun that’s handed to me, even if the sales clerk just cleared it in front of me. The idea that guns are some magical, mysterious technology, that is beyond the understanding of the average person, is a leftist trope.