Problem is regarding the weapon(this might be in retrospect if the police weren't used to dealing with reenactors), that weapon was fully functioning, even moreso because it was a bolt action, manually operated piece. Thus, no blank adaption was necessary...he could have loaded a live round in and fired it just as easily as a blank 7.92 round.

The guy sounds like an idiot from the way I have read it. Put it down. No. Put it down. No. Stop pointing it at me...ah jesus...BANG BANG BANG BANG.