re: Guns on movie sets: “Unreasonable and unrealistic” to expect actor to check load

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SO he is handed a weapon (even stipulating he has never handled one before which is not the case) that he knows is dangerous because in his make-believe world of acting when he points it at someone and it goes "bang" they die he should just point it at someone and pull the trigger?

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He was handed a weapon that according to several accounts was told was “Cold”/ safe, why at that point would he think it was dangerous if he was not a gun owner, had never been instructed in gun safety? I know it is hard for some to believe, but there are millions of people walking around that have never touched or fired a gun, didn’t grow up in a household with guns, and have zero knowledge of firearm safety, and some of them end up being actors in westerns. This is why they have armorers on the set. If you were cast in a war movie and given a hand grenade would you show up on set knowing how to distinguish a dummy grenade from one that had a pyrotechnic charge and could actually explode.? To most actors on a movie set a firearm is treated the same as the grenade, it is assumed the professional in charge of it has given them something safe to handle.