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In such cases, soldiers of the firing squad are not told beforehand whether they are using live or blank ammunition. This is believed to reinforce the sense of diffusion of responsibility among the firing squad members. It provides each member with a measure of plausible deniability that they, personally, did not fire a bullet at all.
Yes, to have a bullet encounter the grenade launcher and grenade there at the muzzle was a bad thing, so it was very important not to have blanks confused with live rounds. There is also the problem of recoil: a blank has almost none. With the M1 Garand, also, the rifle also wouldn't eject the spent cartridge.
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