firearm is always pointing away from somebody, never pointing directly at somebody, never pointing directly at somebody, and that can be achieved with camera angles, you can make it look as if it is being pointed at somebody. and then in the modern day, a lot of the firearms effects, the flashes and the banks, are added in with cgi in postproduction. so, if you re using a firearm close up to somebody s face, where there is a high chance of them being hurt, you can make that completely safe with a totally fake gun and add on the flash and stuff. however, with certain shots, that will never achieve the correct effect, so, sometimes it has to be using blank ammunition. i sometimes it has to be using blank ammunition- sometimes it has to be using blank ammunition. i was going to ask you about that because ammunition. i was going to ask you about that because we ammunition. i was going to ask you about that because we were - ammunition. i was going to ask you about that because we were