Eli5: Why are guns with blank cartridges still potentially fatal?

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I am not referring to a scenario where one cartridge has a bullet in it. I have read of a specific case where a blank cartridge was fired and yet the person still died. If no bullet was in the round, how could it kill someone?

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It still has the explosive charge, it’s just not launching a projectile. But the gunpowder can still burn and deafen.

And if you’re blocking the barrel, say, firing a blank against your hand, that pressure has to get out still. Your hand would essentially become the bullet.

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