A "blanks/caps-only" revolver dat da firearms-store gives you (along wif a coupon good for unlimited "harmless" ammo-refills for a month) to use during da 30-day waiting-period dat dey make you fumingly suffer through before you can pick up da "real" handgun dat you purchased. Da theory/intention of this practice is to hopefully increase/enhance da effectiveness of this month-long "cooling-off period"... i.e., if you were wanting da
gun because you were mad at someone and wanted to
kill him, you could "totally knock yourself out" --- i.e., wrathfully blast away at
said "offender" all you want --- wif da prop-
gun for
four-plus weeks, and then hopefully by da end of dat period, your
anger towards said person would have sufficiently dissipated after seethingly directing hundreds of humongous satisfyingly-deafening muzzle-blasts and puffs of smoke in his direction, and so you would then either change your mind about buying da "real"
gun in da first place, or at least you would not use
said bang-stick to harm
said "offender" --- or anyone else --- when you eventually did acquire it.
If all
gun-shops would issue pisstols to
first-time handgun-buyers during da waiting-period, I
imagine there would be a noticeable decrease in shooting-murders/injuries.