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Tom Selleck Loses Temper With Gun-Toting Extra
showbizspy.com ^ | 1 April, 2011 | NA

Posted on 04/02/2011 6:03:41 AM PDT by marktwain

TOM Selleck has quite the temper!

The actor apparently flew off the handle when an extra on the set of his TV show Blue Bloods picked up a real gun and started pointing it at people!

The extra — who was playing a cop but had never held a real gun — was horrified when Tom, a lifelong gun enthusiast and board member of the National Rifle Association, spotted him and yelled, “Hey, YOU! What the HELL are you doing? That gun’s NOT a toy — stop waving it around!”

“Look at you…your finger’s STILL ON THE TRIGGER!”

According to American tabloid the National Enquirer, the extra then squirmed, “Is the gun really loaded?”

Selleck replied, “No, it’s not loaded. But when you handle a gun it’s common sense to assume it IS loaded, and NOT point it at people!”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; gun; safety; selleck
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To: Mr Rogers
There are such things as unloaded guns. It is up to the person holding it to know if it is or is not loaded. It isn’t hard to check, and there is no excuse for not knowing with absolute certainty.

True enough, but one must still obey the rule "Don't point it at anybody" because, while you know it is unloaded, nobody else knows that for sure.
61 posted on 04/02/2011 7:05:44 AM PDT by fr_freak
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To: spodefly

Exactly!

He not only educated the moron holding the gun, but he also educated everyone who was there to see it!

I doubt that any of them forget that lesson!


62 posted on 04/02/2011 7:07:00 AM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers - Good to the last drop!)
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To: fr_freak

“the weapons safety guy was an incompetent or careless moron”

IIRC, the round had been lodged in the barrel the day before when the other scene was shot and the weapons guy neither checked nor cleaned the weapon over night.

Gross Incompetence. I mean really gross incompetence.


63 posted on 04/02/2011 7:14:27 AM PDT by texmexis best
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To: farmguy

An unnecessary tragedy.


64 posted on 04/02/2011 7:17:12 AM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.conservativedna.com/)
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To: LouAvul
I see it at Cabela’s all the time. I reached over and lifted a gun barrel up just last Sunday. The jacka$$ had it pointed right at the belly of the counter guy.
65 posted on 04/02/2011 7:18:41 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: pabianice
They've forgotten about John Hexum?

One thing I remember about his death, from a blank, is that Hollywood usually doesn't even use real blanks, at least in revolvers. The use fractional power blanks, hardly more than the primer, that make enough just enough noise for the actors to all react to the "gunshot," and for the sound mixer to know where to add in the KA-BLAM sound effect.

66 posted on 04/02/2011 7:21:43 AM PDT by Pilsner
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To: spodefly
Folks must remember that Hollywood actors (and extras) are nearly 100% illiterates when it comes to safe handling and use of firearms. Prop or non-firing dummy guns are used in the majority of cases when filming. Real guns that fire blanks are under the eagle eye of the prop master when the set is “hot” and those guns are loaded. After the scene is over, the prop master collects the guns. The prop master also has to train the actors in safe handling.

Occasionally it goes wrong. On the set of the TV show “Cover Up”, actor Jon Eric Hexum was clowning on the set with a .44 Magnum revolver. Hexum thought the pistol was either unloaded or all the blanks had been fired, He put the pistol his temple and squeezed the trigger. The pistol fired and drove part of the blank cartridge wadding through his skull and into his brain. Hexum was rushed to the hospital on October 12, 1984, but there was no hope. Life support was removed and he died on October 18 at age 26.

67 posted on 04/02/2011 7:26:10 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 (To err is human; to forgive is not our policy. -- SEAL Team SIX)
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To: Joe Brower

ahh, thank you, Joe.....I was hoping a picture of Selleck would be posted! Tom’s one of the good guys!


68 posted on 04/02/2011 7:30:07 AM PDT by 4integrity
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To: marktwain

I’ve also been known to have “quite the temper” when people are mishandling guns.


69 posted on 04/02/2011 7:30:28 AM PDT by tiki
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To: workerbee

lol. thanks, workerbee!


70 posted on 04/02/2011 7:31:06 AM PDT by 4integrity
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To: FrdmLvr

They missed a golden opportunity - they could have called him a bitter clinger!


71 posted on 04/02/2011 7:31:43 AM PDT by JaguarXKE
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To: marktwain

Tom’s a class act and his reaction was completely appropriate. Good for him!


72 posted on 04/02/2011 7:31:46 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: marktwain

I’ll tell an embarrassing story on myself.

Nearly a year and a half ago, I bought myself a home defense shotgun. Prior to that, I had not owned or handled a firearm for more than 40 years, back when I was a teen.

Before I bought or loaded any shells in the Maverick 12 gauge, I tried dry firing a few times. Suddenly, I realized with horror that MY finger was resting on the trigger as I moved the shotgun from “target” to “target” in my bedroom.

OMG, I forgotten Rule 1. I chastised myself most severely. Then I arranged for an hour or two of New Gun Owner Training at a local range, and presented myself as a gun dummy to my trainer. A broken and humble idiot, that’s what I was.

I’m better now.


73 posted on 04/02/2011 7:33:11 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: marktwain
The extra — who was playing a cop but had never held a real gun — was horrified...

He knows how to handle a real gun, he plays a cop on TV.

Just like the many actors who play President in the movies think they're experts on foreign/domestic policy.

74 posted on 04/02/2011 7:34:20 AM PDT by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: ExpatGator
I have a gunshop and I am ruthless about safety . . . I finally told him “If you point that thing at me one more time I am gonna holster it . . .”

I learned safety from my father, and you are a whole lot more gentle than he was. The extra punishment for a first violation was a year without touching firearms, and he was nowhere near as gentle with his warnings as you were (but it was not a business for him, so he didn't have to be tolerant).

75 posted on 04/02/2011 7:42:28 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: farmguy

Oh jeeze, I remember that.

Actually there have been several instances, Bruce Lee’s son Brandon died from the same thing, as I recall.


76 posted on 04/02/2011 7:42:34 AM PDT by RikaStrom (Pray for Obama - Psalm 109:8 "Let his days be few; and let another take his place of leadership.")
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To: marktwain

Selleck is in the right on this one. Good for him for educating the extra.


77 posted on 04/02/2011 7:44:26 AM PDT by Immerito (Reading Through the Bible in 90 Days)
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To: marktwain

Tom’s a class act and his reaction was completely appropriate. Good for him!


78 posted on 04/02/2011 7:45:32 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: marktwain
The same idiot writer who implies that Tom Selleck was being unreasonable and pitching a temper fit would have been the first one to have condemned a lack of safety had the moron playing with the gun actually managed to hurt himself or someone else.

I guess there has to be something "wrong" with an actor who actually knows how to responsibly handle a gun and is at least suspected of owning one or an arsenal (more than one gun= an arsenal, in media terms).

Off topic, Tom Selleck still looks pretty darned good, doesn't he!

79 posted on 04/02/2011 7:46:41 AM PDT by susannah59
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To: marktwain

Selleck is absolutely right. Good for him.


80 posted on 04/02/2011 7:46:52 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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