(December 3, 2021 at 2:35 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: So in your universe - ignorance is a vital asset.
If every actor has to unload the bullets from his gun to make sure they are dummies or blanks, then why have any safety protocols at all?
If an actor is handed a gun, I don't want them to tamper with it in any way. I don't want them to take bullets out and reload. The standard protocol is that the actor and anyone on set MAY ask for proof of a gun's safety, but they do not personally mess around with the loadout.
Yeah, you would've checked the loadout. You pride yourself in being a gun expert. I see you futzing around with the gun on set, and I'm going to ask on set "why is he screwing around with the gun, is something wrong?". I want to see the chain of events from prop master to the person who checks the weapons and declares them safe, to the hands of the actors, and then back on the cart. I personally would have asked for proof of a "cold gun", but perhaps I'd start to trust the team and not bother, being focused on the next scene.
There are protocols in place for how an actor discharges a gun with blanks (you don't point it at someone within 20 feet) - but those aren't in place when the gun is declared to be "cold". And the idea that "you never point even an unloaded gun at someone" is false when you are literally being paid and told to do just that.
