(November 1, 2021 at 8:06 am)onlinebiker Wrote: I would check the gun to see what is in it. Yes- I know the difference between live rounds, blanks and dummy loads - and know the reasons why each would be used.
On a movie set, there are safety policies. Not ONE of them are that the actors check their own loads. The policy is that the actor or another person on set MAY ask the person handing out the guns to prove to them the correct ordinance is in it, but it is 100% the responsibility of the person handing them the gun to make sure it is safe. No actor can pick a gun off a cart themselves, and no-one except the proper person can give them the gun.
Sure, it is good to have multiple levels of defense, and on a set I'd probably ask the person handing me the gun to prove to me it is safe, but in a safety system, there always has to be one person that is 100% responsible, and it isn't the actors. If everyone is responsible, then no-one is. There has to be someone who knows their ass is on the line if something goes wrong. The AD handed the gun to Baldwin without fully checking it. He admitted that. It was primarily his responsibility. He is going to be civilly liable, if not criminally.
Please - show me a document or law that says actors must check the loads of prop guns. Also show me where they have to check the hand grenades aren't real, or make sure the pyrotechnics are safe. There isn't one. They aren't gun owners, aficionados, or using the gun for self defense. It isn't their gun.
If I was on a movie wet with Biker, and he said "my gun is good", I wouldn't believe him. If I saw him pulling out bullets and putting them back in, I'd say "fuck that, I want a professional to reload it". That's why professionals exist, and it is their primary job to ensure safety.
