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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I know of 3 cases.

Iirc.

One there was a magician, he tapped the gun and the tip of his wand fell in the barrel. The blank then fired the tip from the wand that was in the barrel into him during the trick and killed him.

An actor took a gun with a blank, pointed at his head it was believed iirc that he didn’t intend to kill himself but didn’t realize it would be fatal when he pulled the trigger. In This case it was just the energy coming out of the barrel that penetrated his skull.

Then there was another case I think the crow, that one had a bullet, no charge but they forgot and left the primer I which is a smaller charge that sets off the gunpowder, but was enough to launch the bullet and kill him. So not exactly a blank.

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