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Originally Posted by MT2008
It's not a real suppressor. None of the sound suppressors you see in movies or TV shows are real; typically, armorers just make suppressor cans from aluminum cylinders (or whatever else is available). It means that they have fewer NFA-regulated items to worry about on-set, and there's also a reason (I forget what exactly) that using a real suppressor in combination with blank ammunition is actually dangerous.
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Actually I don't believe it is more dangerous. I've dumped an entire magazine of 9mm hot blanks through an MP5A2 that had a LIVE GEMTECH suppressor on it and it shot fine (the MP5 barrel was already blank adapted). It actually knocked the sound level down quite a bit, but with MANY guns, it actually hinders cycling of the action and it definitely eliminates that nice FIREBALL effect from the muzzle. The fact that blanks are still 'dirtier' than live rounds may ruin or shorten the life of the suppressor baffles with contamination, but I don't see any danger of using a live suppressor with a blank weapon.
As I said before, it usually hinders reliable cycling of the action, especially with handguns when using blanks.