Method of making a training firearm

A method of making a training firearm, the training firearm not being an actual firearm but possessing a visual look and a tactile feel of an actual firearm being replicated, to enable a user to train realistically but safely, the method comprising:

• creating a first permanent open cavity mold of a right side of the actual firearm being replicated;
• creating a second permanent open cavity mold of a left side of the actual firearm being replicated;
• positioning a magazine, or a replica of the magazine, of the actual firearm being replicated in one of the first and second permanent open cavity molds, the magazine, or the replica of the magazine, being pre-hardened or being coated to inhibit fusing of the magazine, or the replica of the magazine, with a material from which the training firearm is being molded;
• pouring the material into each of the first and second permanent open cavity molds, to create right and left side poured replicas, respectively, of the right and left sides of the actual firearm being replicated;
• combining the right and left side poured replicas to fuse them together;
• withdrawing the magazine, or the replica of the magazine, from the combined right and left side poured replicas, leaving a magazine well in a space where the magazine, or the replica of the magazine, had been located before being withdrawn.