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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I’m not an expert, but I’ve read comments by several different people who claim to know the process say that the armorer (or assistant director responsible for safety) is supposed to show the actor that the gun is unloaded, not just say it is.[/quote]

This would indeed confirm that the gun was safe. But did it happen in THIS case?[/quote]

Reportedly the armorer was not on set when this happened and was not the one to hand AB the gun, both breaches of safety protocols. An AD grabbed the gun from a cart with three guns and told him it was a cold gun. I doubt the AD even had the knowledge or ability to show AB it was unloaded.

Which is why the armorer is supposed to do it. The armorer is in charge of the guns on set— making sure they are cleaned, prepared, and functioning properly. There should never be a *cart of guns* sitting around for anyone, including an AD, to grab for any reason. No one should announce a gun is cold unless they know it is, because they are trained to know and inspected the gun themself. This is the whole point of both the armorer and the weapon safety protocol. It exists precisely to prevent an actor from handling a weapon that could harm someone, in a way that such harm might occur.

It is so telling that some of the Union members who quit cited improper gun safety on set. They were not armorers or props people or stunt people— the were camera people. Think about how lax gun safety on a set has to be for a cameraman, who has his own sh!t to worry about, to notice and become concerned. Carts of unattended guns lying around us the sort of thing a crew member would notice, and even if they were unfamiliar with weapon protocols, think “whoa that is not okay.[/quote]

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