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

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Once again, how is the actor off the street that never touched a gun supposed to know the first rule of gun safety? Common sense says if I am hired to do a job that involves hazardous equipment that I know nothing about I trust the trained professional that tells me it is safe to use.

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Good lord. I can’t believe you are still holding on to this.

You’re telling me that even an uninformed newb can’t pick the one live bullet out of this picture?

As for your example, let’s put it a different way. If someone you had just met as another employee on a temporary job handed you a gun and told you it was ready to aim at your dearest loved one and pull the trigger, do you still just take their word for it and do it?