10-26-2021, 11:31 AM
(10-25-2021, 10:45 PM)LP link Wrote:It doesn't need live rounds on set to kill someone, it can be a Brandon Lee type scenario.
In Lee's case they used dummy shells c/w projectile but no charge for a close up filming of the handgun being loaded, but when they swapped out the dummy rounds for blanks nobody noticed one of the projectiles had come off the shell and was lodged in the barrel. When they fired the blanks at the actor the round left lodged in the barrel killed him!
I believe people have also been killed by the wadding used in some blanks, but this can't be the case given the round went right through the victim and hit the director standing behind.
Even the hot gases produced by the firing of a blank cartridge can cause harm, as can solid parts of the blank. Any such parts are quite small and decelerate quickly, hence the 10 metre rule in the military.
The Brandon Lee scenario may have been slightly more difficult to detect but should have been picked up by a competent armourer. If anything, the Brandon Lee tragedy should have resulted in more rigorous firearms safety checks.
Aurangzeb junior is flogging T-shirts mocking Alec Baldwin's part in this tragic loss of life. I can't help thinking that the world would be a better place if Aurangzeb had been drowned at birth.
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