• CapraObscura@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Wow, almost like being on a movie set isn’t like being in a fucking shooting range.

    No, he was not “playing with it.” He was blocking out a scene and rehearsing. He removed the gun he was given from the holster and it fired.

    He should never have been handed a live firing gun. The armorer’s responsibility is to track all firearms at all times.

    I personally think, with the budgets of Hollywood Movies, there’s no reason they couldn’t have a gunsmith make/modify one to shoot only blanks.

    The firearm Baldwin was handed was unmodified. There was also one that had been modified to not fire anything, and another that was a resin cast replica. In other words, the entire industry is literally decades ahead of you in terms of safety and knowledge.

    You do not need to ensure a firearm shoots only blanks if you just… and I can’t stress this enough… DON’T INTENTIONALLY BRING REAL AMMUNITION ONTO A FILM SET.

    Which the armorer did.