I would like to hear an explanation about why they even had live ammo anywhere near the movie set in those prop guns
+1
Exactly.
I tend to agree...someone needs to detail why live ammo even appeared on the set at all. I could understand having it on a African safari-type movie set, but this was New Mexico. It just sounds like the guns in question were used for target-practice on weekends, and brought back to the set on Monday.
[[I would like to hear an explanation about why they even had live ammo anywhere near the movie set in those prop guns]]
that is the $64,000 question- Were union peeps upset that scabs were o n the set instead of them? Did someone think it woudl be funny? Or have something against someone?
There is an audio of the 911 call, which ‘sounds like’ Alec (Not sure it is- but it looked like what he woudl say and how he’d say it knowing his hot headed vocabulary)- loaded with F’Bombs- immediately blaming the crew for what happened-
And supposedly Camera crews walked off set because of ‘safety concerns’ before the incident
Either a malicious prank, or they target practice in their leisure time, and it’s a tragic but avoidable accident.
They use them for effect when you want down range evidence of shots fired if no one is in the intended frame of where the bullet is going
Think the original jackal movie with Edward Fox and the watermelon
That sort of thing.....or Quigley ..
Does that make sense...
The only explanation I can think of is the gun loaded with real ammo was for closeups so the tips of the bullets would be visible in the cylinders.
Somebody then mistakenly grabbed the “closeup gun” instead of the “live action gun” that was loaded with blanks.