Definitely shouldn't be convicted. You play with guns, sometimes somebody dies, it's the cost of admission.

#8 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2023-03-16 10:08 PM | FLAG:

Funny you should frame it that way. I did bungee jump, when I was young and stupid and didn't know better. I have seen things that give me zero faith in the bungee operators despite their "expertise".

Just as I'm not working at any place that plays with guns. If I was somehow forced to, and the alleged expert takes the guns out of the workplace to go play with them, and engages in behavior that makes even non-gun owners question what's going on, I'm going to very, very loudly, in a way that gets me fired, demolish this alleged expert.

Anybody that tells somebody to stand down range of a gun is not an expert. But since you all agreed to play with guns, if somebody dies they die. Time to move on.

For example, when was the last time you remember a story about an on-set shooting with a gun...Brandon Lee? And that was wadding. When was the last bullet?

#8 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2023-03-16 10:08 PM | FLAG:

Just counting stuff since Y2K? I asked ChatGPT and was informed of Expendables 2 with a fatality. Firearm injuries occurring in Hunger Games, Lone Ranger, Expendables 1, Expendables 3, Hateful Eight, Dark Knight, Great Wall, Saving Private Ryan, The Patriot, LOTR: Return of the King, LOTR: Two Towers, The Revenant, Matrix Reloaded, Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Dark Knight, Hangover Part 2, and Jack Reacher. Apparently quite a number of people have also suffered firearm injuries in TV production.

as a practical matter, if the protocol has a person stand downrange of a firearm to film it, in the digital age, you should question that particular protocol. Take a cue from Mythbusters and remotely view it.

oh and Tom Sizemore negligently discharged a round that almost shot an extra in the head on Saving Private Ryan. That was just luck it missed and we're not calling getting Baldwin'd getting Sizemore'd.

Firearm injuries?

#18 | POSTED BY HAGBARD_CELINE AT 2023-03-17 09:48 AM | FLAG:
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You don't remember aragorns sword-anduril 9mm?

#19 | POSTED BY TRUTHHURTS AT 2023-03-17 09:52 AM | FLAG:

Yes, hilariously. The only logical thing is scaring off some wildlife before filming. Filmed in a country with what's now very strict gun control.

For example, when was the last time you remember a story about an on-set shooting with a gun...Brandon Lee? And that was wadding. When was the last bullet?

#8 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2023-03-16 10:08 PM | FLAG:

btw it wasn't wadding. An inactivated round, called "dummy round" misleadingly but is a real cartridge with a real bullet, but fake primer and no powder went into a gun. When the cartridge was removed the bullet stayed because it wasn't crimped well because it was meant to be fake. A "blank" cartridge containing a full load of gunpowder and a primer then went into the gun, assembling a cartridge in the gun, which worked exactly like they're supposed to just at a slightly lower than usual velocity from the lack of bullet to cartridge crimp.

Most film injuries apparently come from powder flash from blanks anyways. If you need the bolt to move for that hot slow motion shot you can 3d print internals and electrically actuate them quite safely. No need to use real guns in most instances in 2022. Add the flash in post.