Meanings of load with blanks in English

Small boys began to set off firecrackers and Fourth of July pistols loaded with blanks.

Quattrocchi had never mentioned that the unfortunate Peter Jamieson had been carrying a gun loaded with blanks.

But the guns were loaded with blanks.

You'd think so; but they seem to be afraid of the guns, even though they are loaded with blanks.

He turned the corner with the other two before the second round, this one not loaded with blanks, could be fired.

"Vayentha's gun was loaded with blanks," the provost said.

Boggs gives Peeta back his gun, too, although he makes sure to tell him in a loud voice that it's only loaded with blanks.

"I believe," Devins said, eyeing him closely, "that if you search your memory, you'll remember Poke telling you that your gun was loaded with blanks.