Ths choice to put live ammo into the magazine is something which we can call larping but to these people is not larping.

He made the mental choice to load the weapon with the aim to use it to kill people. His action to point a loaded weapon at a car window (safety off) means we really need to stop calling it larping.

They are at war and we are still thinking they are just playing games.

Again think of his choices that in the end resulted in his death. Its not larping. Never was.