This is a bit different, though. Although blanks may have cardboard (or other such material) wads in them, they still have gun powder which causes the "bang". Up against your head?? Yeah, that's enough concussive power to make you dead.
The "less lethal" munitions in the jail, such as the SL1 or SL6 shoot hard rubber projectiles. If you hit someone in the head with it... it can kill. Same with a hard plastic pepper ball... if it hits you square in the eyeball, the eye is done, and it could possibly kill you if it transfers enough energy back into the brain.
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