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

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No one has said whether it was a live round, a blank, or something else. But it clearly fired as Baldwin was drawing the gun so there was a primer and at least some object in the barrel.


Easiest assumption is that it was an actual live round rather than a blank because the blank would need something other than wadding to shoot out in order to kill someone at the likely distance he was firing from.

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Per the article I read the man that was wounded was standing behind the cinematographer. That tells me it was a live round and not a blank.