Blank guns are used at sporting events as starter pistols, in film and theatre and for a range of other uses, such as scaring birds. They fire cartridges filled with gunpowder in the place of ...

A blank pistol fired at police during trouble in east Belfast was feared to be a bid to kill them, the High Court heard. Officers on the ground during one of the worst outbreaks of street violence ...

The public are being urged to turn in now-illegal Turkish-made blank-firing pistols as a four-week amnesty is launched. Turkish manufactured top-venting blank firers (TVBFs) were banned following ...

An armed robber pistol-whipped a Bronx postal worker before stealing more than $100,000 and 1,000 blank money orders from a post office, according to local reports. The robber approached the 56 ...

A total of three blank cartridges were discovered in the gas pistol used in Saturday's assault against Bulgarian ethnic Turkish politician Ahmed Dogan, according to experts. Police in Bulgaria ...