The US film industry has been operating for over a hundred years, routinely works with firearms, and yet only 3 people have died in firearms accidents that whole time.
I’m saying this for all the gun safety “experts”. I don’t care if you’re military, law enforcement, or a private gun owner, your embarrassing yourself by lecturing Hollywood on gun safety.
Wasnt it a barrel obstruction that was then shot out when he fired a blank with it? Checking to ensure it’s blanks in your magazine/chamber is fine, checking a weapon from a site armorer for barrel obstruction isn’t a routine thing to check. I certainly don’t check my guns for obstruction except when Im cleaning / taking out of storage / have reason to believe there might be one because of ex: a misfire.
If this was live ammo then so many people fucked up. No site I have ever heard of allows live ammo to be present at all. Most studio lots dont allow live ammo, and several in hollywood require security to use custom marked handguns that prominently say they have live rounds in them. Ive been told a few even have fully custom magwells for site security guards / lot cops so you cant swap the magazines around. The paranoia around gun safety in hollywood is nuts. It’s fucking incredible how many people had to fuck up to cause this.
They had live ammo and live shooting non-disabled guns. The crew were using them on the incident day to shoot cans, and this was the armorer’s first second film job
The US film industry has been operating for over a hundred years, routinely works with firearms, and yet only 3 people have died in firearms accidents that whole time.
I’m saying this for all the gun safety “experts”. I don’t care if you’re military, law enforcement, or a private gun owner, your embarrassing yourself by lecturing Hollywood on gun safety.
Sir / madam, this is a shitpost, not a lecture on gun safety
Shitpost about human deaths, deal with the lectures on human deaths in the comments.
Dont like it? Shitpost about puppies. No one lectures puppies.
yeah we do if the puppy is a bad breed like pug or chihuahua
Try telling the puppy that
i tell every puppy they’re bad until they cry
PETA just kills them, so…thats like the worst lecture you can get
Killing someone is not a lecture, or else most teachers and parents would be in prison for life.
This is Lemmy, you will receive a lecture.
If they practiced proper firearm safety there wouldn’t have been real bullets in a gun that’s supposed to be loaded with blanks, no?
If they had practiced actually firearm safety on the movie set, the guns would have been blank guns incapable of firing live ammunition.
In fact they’d should have had no guns capable of firing live ammunition on set.
All they should have had were blank firing guns and disabled firearms (e.g. firing pin removed)
Wasnt it a barrel obstruction that was then shot out when he fired a blank with it? Checking to ensure it’s blanks in your magazine/chamber is fine, checking a weapon from a site armorer for barrel obstruction isn’t a routine thing to check. I certainly don’t check my guns for obstruction except when Im cleaning / taking out of storage / have reason to believe there might be one because of ex: a misfire.
If this was live ammo then so many people fucked up. No site I have ever heard of allows live ammo to be present at all. Most studio lots dont allow live ammo, and several in hollywood require security to use custom marked handguns that prominently say they have live rounds in them. Ive been told a few even have fully custom magwells for site security guards / lot cops so you cant swap the magazines around. The paranoia around gun safety in hollywood is nuts. It’s fucking incredible how many people had to fuck up to cause this.
They had live ammo and live shooting non-disabled guns. The crew were using them on the incident day to shoot cans, and this was the armorer’s
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I mean, tbf, you do not need live ammo to make a film… The other examples do need -want for the private case- so I do not think is comparable.
I imagine live ammo would have been removed years ago if there were truly no need for it, so there’s probably some reason it’s good to have.
They use blanks so they don’t have to pay a special effects person to edit in gunfire sound effects and muzzle flash
Generally speaking people like to see practical, aka “real,” effects.
And yet. They clearly failed that day. To have that great a safety record before the failure really begs the question doesn’t it?