Bruni Olympic .380 BBM
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The Bruni BBM Olympic .380, officially marketed as the Olympic 38, is a blank-firing revolver manufactured by Italian replica firearms company Bruni. It was banned in the United Kingdom as being "readily convertible" into a "live-firing" gun.[1][2]
The Bruni Olympic 38 is a double- and single-action blank-only revolver that is chambered for the .380/9mm R.K. (Rimmed Knall) blank cartridge and is fed by a five-round swing-out cylinder.[3] It was the first Bruni/BBM product, which was introduced at the IWA OutdoorClassics event in Nuremberg in 1981.[4] The Olympic is primarily available in black and nickel finishes with wood grips,[5] while variants exported to the United Kingdom are manufactured with bright orange or blue frames for buyers without a valid legal defence in purchasing a "Realistic Imitation Firearm" as per the UK's Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006.[6][7] Bruni manufactures front- and side/top-venting versions of the Olympic 38 with the latter for countries (such as the United Kingdom) with more restrictive laws on blank-firing gun replicas.[8]
