so, yes, they are prop guns of various kinds used in various ways, but these things are so dangerous a lot of productions don't use them at all anymore. the show that was on hbo earlier this year, kate winslet plays the police detective, it is not a spoiler but a lot of guns are fired on that show. kate winslet is a cop and on "mayor of east town" for that whole show they decided every firing of every gun would all be cgi, it was all special effects. they didn't use prop guns loaded with blanks. they, you know, maybe lost the authentic recoil and the live muzzle flash that they would have gotten from using blanks, but they decided it wasn't worth the risk. they added in all of the effects after the fact, and a lot of productions do that now. but a lot of movie and tv sets still use real guns. the prop master who handles all props for all purposes on the set, if there are guns being used, that person can sometimes be assisted by a specialist, an