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The issue is that these weren't prop guns, but unmodified "real" guns. Apparently, this was necessary for authenticity. At that point, everyone handling the guns should have some basic gun safety training. Yes, even actors. Can we treat horses or swords like props? Actors just get to flail away without training? [/quote]

I'm a DP but you're not realizing something semantic-related.  Any object touched or used by an actor in a scene is called a prop. When they drink their mug of coffee, the mug is a prop.  When they brush their teeth, the toothbrush is a prop.  Those things are real objects.  "Prop" doesn't mean fake in movie or theater lingo, it just means the objects the actors handle.  It's why the props and set decorating departments are entirely different departments.  The pictures on a mantel in the background of a scene? Set dressing. The photo album the the actor sits down to rifle through, a prop.

So on a movie set, a gun, real or not, is a prop. [/quote]

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