Quote Originally Posted by scruff View Post
So the department routinely uses real guns with blanks for training, and he was given a box of blanks that weren't blanks by someone else in the dept. Sounds like criminal negligence all around.
My dad said when he was stationed in Germany, one of his Sargents (who was always drunk) "accidentally" mixed some live rounds with the blanks in some M14 magazines.

The problem was fixed soon after while he was asleep.