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LOL, google "movie pointing gun at camera." It's a thing.

According to the OSHA report, pointing guns at the camera was a fairly regular occurrence. Maybe that's some kind of western movie trope, like guys walking away from explosions.

Pretty interesting read. Lot of detail. As usual, the accountants are to blame. The budget allocated 8 days of armorer rate for Gutierrez-Reed. The rest of her time was budgeted at a lower rate as a props assistant. The 8 days of armorer budget ran out on the 17th. However, in reality she...

Good find. I attached safety bulletin 1, pages 13-16, which pertains to firearms and blanks. Item #1 acknowledges that pointing guns at people is sometimes required to make a movie, and this is not forbidden by the safety rules. Also note the bulletin establishes 2 formal roles, the...

And that is why his plea deal was revoked. He was originally offered 6 month probation. Then the government learned that he was planning a PR campaign to limit the damage to his reputation from the plea deal, and planned to sue the prosecutors and investigators. His trial will probably...

Yikes.

I agree. This is a lot like an aircraft plane crash. It was not one error, but a chain of F ups. Dangerous practices by someone else, eg Yellowstone cast using props for a shooting day. Poorly designed safety protocols, eg dummy rounds not unmistakably marked. An inexperienced and immature...

I agree. Per my post above, the color of the primer was apparently a discriminator. Which seems bananas, since other brands of primers are brass colored. To further complicate things, apparently some of the dummies did not rattle. Instead, they had a hole drilled in the case. I would want a...

That was actually a point of contention in the armorer trial. This is a picture of an ammo tray recovered on set. The bullet with the silver colored primer is a live round. The bullets with brass colored primers are dummies. The armorer took a selfie of herself with this tray of ammo in her...

Dunno. Ask the AD. I assume it was because the live scene would be filmed immediately after it was blocked out. It's logical to get all your people and props on set, walk through everything to get the mechanics down, then turn on the camera and do a live take.

No evidence was found of that by the investigators for the armorer's trial. They were unable to determine how the bullets got on set. The Yellowstone 1883 cast apparently went off set for a day of shooting. That is relevant because the same arms and ammo supplier supported both films, and the...

Ummm, no, not how that works.

The armorer was responsible for obtaining the proper weapons and ammo, preparing them for use, and providing to the assistant director (AD). The assistant director was the safety coordinator on set for the scene. He then was responsible for controlling the prop cart and providing guns to the...

There is no evidence of that, according to the prosecution investigators at the trial of the armorer.

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Unless it was inadvertent. There were a total of 6 rounds found. The way they were distributed suggests they might have gotten mixed into the ammo supply by mistake. "Investigators found a live round in that box. It was one of six known to be on the film set, which included the one that...

Why?

Nobody was aware there was live ammo on site. That is very much against the safety rules. LEO investigators were unable to determine how the live rounds got there. That was a major point of contention in the Armorer's trial.

I actually did see a similar event once. An Army sergeant in my unit hid a magazine of live ammo in his ammo pouch so he could cheat on an upcoming qualification range. During a blank fire ambush exercise, he loaded the live magazine and shot a dozen rounds on full auto into the target, a...

Nope. Professional.