It is legal for anyone aged over 18 in the UK to by a TVBF without a licence unless they are readily convertible. The weapons are made with a fully-blocked barrel and only fire blank cartridges.

Officers said the blank-firing guns will cease to be legal to own after 28 February. TVBF firearms are popular with organised criminals because they can be readily converted into lethal guns, the ...

News; UK News; Crime; Blank firing guns set to be outlawed after a string of murders An amnesty will be held early next year for owners of four types of blank firearms to be surrendered after ...

Blank-firing guns are so dangerous that they require a special license to operate, according to RJR Props and Set Dressing Services, a prop gun rental company for film, video and television ...

Blank-firing prop guns allow filmmakers to do this live on set. But nowadays, high-end, non-lethal Airsoft guns, which fire pellets with air compressors, are visual replicas of real guns.

The shipment, listed as “sporting blank gun,” included 620 blank firing guns of various models. It was headed to an address in Bensalem, Pa. ATF agents determined that 240 Zoraki model M2906 ...

Owners of particular types of blank firing guns, which have become popular with criminals, have been urged to hand the firearms in to police stations after tests found they can be easily converted ...

Real guns or replicas? Blank fire or special effects? The killing of a cinematographer on a film set has some in the industry rethinking their approach to firearms. By Julia Jacobs Scott Reeder ...

A number of blank-firing guns have been handed in to Derbyshire Police during an amnesty this month. The force said it had accepted 13 so-called top-venting blank firing (TVBF) weapons at police ...