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[quote=Anonymous]Productions literally have an entire subset of the crew - prop master, armorer, safety techs/trainers, plus assistants - to plan and manage handle firearm scenes. An actor is not an expert on firearms - that's the entire point of hiring all these people.

Again, more good info on Reddit:

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In the fantasy world of movies, the actor is often not the expert which is why there's often an entire separate department just for firearms. In my experience on set, if the gun is unloaded, the expert is with the gun all the way to the actor's hands and shows the actor it is unloaded, and the actor acknowledges it. If a gun needs to be loaded with something, guns are checked, re-checked, cleared, shown and handed to an actor as "ready to fire" and the set becomes "hot". Guns are the most rigid, "do NOT f#ck around with this sh#t, I-don't-care-who-you-are" scenario. Do not improvise, do not point, do not lift, do not dismantle the gun, do not do anything you aren't explicitly told to do. It points to the ground, you hear action, you lift, fire, holster, cut, gun is removed from you hands.. Every precaution needs to take place, multiple times before it's handed over. How a gun that was accidentally loaded, or had the wrong ammo, or littered with casing shrapnel made it through the prep, the checks, the resetting and then handed to an actor without any of them noticing, is a spectacular failure I can't even wrap my head around.[/i][/quote]

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/qd4vzs/female_crewmember_dies_after_prop_gun_misfire_on/

Pretty much everyone in the industry who has worked with firearms is saying "This isn't possible." I'm more and more inclined to believe that someone on the New Mexico crew purposely did this with evil intent.

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