PewTube: The Theatrical Firearms Channel present options for film makers looking into safe to handle guns, which usually are non-firing props such as airsoft guns. In this episode, they present shell ejecting airsoft pistols... "Looking at the other of the new Spring Blowback (my term) toy props I got, a Kimber 1911, and comparing it to the Marushin shell ejecting gas STI 1911 and a standard 1911 gas blowback.

So many choices, none of them perfect, but each with their uses...

So what do you think? Better to have the shell ejection like this, or better to have the metal and build quality of an airsoft gas blowback but no shell ejection? Ideally, for gun wrangling, I'd have the same model in many versions: rubber (maybe soft foam and hard rubber or plastic), gas blowback, shell ejecting (which could be the cap firing modelguns, gas blowback shell ejecting, electric shell ejecting, or these spring blowback shell ejecting ones), and blank firing (maybe both top and front vent)... maybe even real firearm versions with or without blank firing adapters too... but there are only a few models I have in more than two or three different versions, sadly, especially if we get picky about things like trademarks and other exact matches."