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Expanding on what others noted - a blank still has a full charge of explosive in it. But instead of being topped with a delicious piece of lovingly crafted, hand-delivered metal with which to perforate and/or massively disrupt your weak, disgusting meat, it's just got wadding or something in the end.
Now, the practical upshot of this is that any significant distance, all the energy released by the exploding powder just dissipates. The trick is "at any significant distance." 'Cuz, see, you still have ALL THE ENERGY being released that would otherwise fling lead in interesting directions. Up close, before the air dissipates it, you still have a tremendous amount of force being released. Enough to put a pretty significant dent in your day if you've got the end of the barrel pressed up against something you care about.
Tl;dr, learn2physics.
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