Should have been 0 months. Playing with guns has well known consequences and everybody on set participated willingly.

Highly trained? You can get a Society of American Fight Directors Theatrical Firearms Safety Certification in 2 days. $400 to tell somebody "Treat every gun like it's loaded and real", their #1 rule.

#7 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-04-17 01:55 AM | FLAG:

It's funny that it bothers you so much. All you're doing is justifying playing with guns because it's safer than Chiraq.

You're better at marketing firearms than the NRA.

For a REAL comparison

#7 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-04-17 01:55 AM | FLAG:

It's more like my local gun ranges. Less supervision and still somehow less fatalities than Alec Baldwin has caused.

The lack of common sense on the protocols is still astounding. You really have to sit behind the camera? In 2025 you don't have a little screen you can watch? That's how you get shot in the face if somebody makes a mistake. You can't use an actual prop instead of a real firearm? It's not protocol for experts to remove the firing pins? Seriously, who certifies these people? I've asked that numerous times, where's the course you take to become an armorer?

Guns don't keep Chicago safe?

#12 | POSTED BY SNOOFY AT 2024-04-17 10:10 AM | FLAG:

It's all relative. It's safe until the ops come around and you have to defend your drug distribution territory. The trap doesn't secure itself, that takes tools.

Movies have them all the time, just rarely fatal. John Wick burnt so many extras with gunpowder it's kind of hilarious.

Tom Sizemore simply missed the extra. On a movie where they never needed real ammo. Poor extra dodged a .30-06.

but if i add up all the shots fired at all of the local ranges.. really safe, definitely toe to toe with movie production on injuries and fatalities, probably much better on the injuries/deaths per shot count, but with a completely different type of protocol that shares the same first rule as the Theater crowd.

#15 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-04-17 11:44 AM | FLAG:

Seriously, who certifies these people? I've asked that numerous times, where's the course you take to become an armorer?

#13 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG AT 2024-04-17 10:10 AM | FLAG:

Still waiting on that one. Who certifies the armorers? How do you know they're an expert? What's the test?

Nah, no way. If you proclaim yourself the expert, and everybody agrees and plays with you, that's not a scapegoat. That's just a bunch of people not checking the receipts.