point-blank

Very close; not touching but not more than a few metres (yards).

The distance between a firearm and a target where a projectile in flight is expected to strike the centre of the target without adjusting the elevation of the firearm.

Now, here's a useful tool—.470, telescopic sight, double ejector, point-blank up to three-fifty. That's the rifle I used against the Peruvian slave-drivers three years ago.

Heavily armed militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in rural Assam on Tuesday, pulling villagers from their homes and shooting them at point-blank range, witnesses said.

Disconcertingly straightforward or blunt; outright.

a point-blank assertion

At this point-blank denial, Stephen turned his face away decisively, and preserved an ominous silence; […]

In a direct manner, without hesitation.

One day, when he was doing some valuation for me, he told me point-blank that clergymen seldom understood anything about business, and did mischief when they meddled; […]

About a week afterwards she said to him, point-blank, “Are you seriously making love to your little cousin?”