If you thumb cock the hammer, won’t you have to roll the cylinder all the way around to get the chamber with the laser cartridge back under the hammer? [emoji1751][emoji3603]
Or if you have a hammer on a semi-auto, I suppose you could thumb cock it. Either way it still requires manual manipulation and is not the same as firing live rounds. Only the first round allows you to “practice as normal”.
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Since he said he did not like having to "rack the slide", I assumed he wasn't using a revolver