I had a round (brass, primer, powder & bullet) with 3 firing pin strikes and no “bang”, so I took it to Kapp and he showed me how a bullet puller works. I’ve embedded a video I found on tube that explains how this works:
Here’s my round set into the bullet puller, then taken out of the bullet puller:
And, the fun part, we lit up the gunpowder just because I wanted to see how it burns in a non-contained space: