[Ellendra]

Skits like that could be lethal, all they’d need is a few marines in the congregation . . .

I remember reading years ago about a preacher who shot himself in the head during a skit. The gun was loaded with blanks, but a piece of the casing came loose and was shot into his skull just like a bullet would have.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"I remember reading years ago about a preacher who shot himself in the head during a skit. The gun was loaded with blanks, but a piece of the casing came loose and was shot into his skull just like a bullet would have."

A piece of casing doesn't have to come loose. The supersonic column of gases from the cartridge's explosion is enough to disrupt the skull. That's what happened to an actor and model, Jon-Erik Hexum, back in the '80s. Frustrated with the many takes in some show he was taping, he jokingly put a blank-loaded prop gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The End, you might say.