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I truly cannot emphasize this enough: a blank is considered a live round on a film set, because it poses a risk. “Live ammo” (ie bullets) are not allowed in sets and there is no evidence there was live ammo on this set.

I still don’t think we know that the gun had an actual blank in it. It may have had debris in it from when previously fired, if not properly cleaned and checked (which, yes, is on the armorer, but we don’t yet know the sequence of events here).

This gun had misfired multiple times on set already. That’s a huge red flag. Likely it was still being used because they did not want to either reshoot prior scenes with a new gun, or switch guns midway through shooting without explanation (lots of eagle eyed viewers would notice).

The reason the industry does not just use rubber weapons and add the rest in post is that it is much, much cheaper to film a live gun (CGI is expensive) and because many filmmakers believe in certain authenticity in filming. That obviously pales in importance when compared to a human life. However, do not assume they will suddenly get rid of guns on set because of this. By all accounts, this set was not following safety protocol at all. It is possible to have a safe set with guns. This was not safe.[/quote]

I agree with everything this poster said.

We need to, and we will, as costs go down, use more CGI. But for right now, we need to continue to enforce safe gun use on sets. [/quote]

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