Really? A Prop Gun Killed someone on a Movie Set?

John Jacob H's RKBA Commentary ^ | April 3rd, 2011 | John Jacob H

[Copernicus]

Red Flag warning! Blue Bloods Gun Safety Amateur Hour!

David Codrea highlights an incident on the set of Tom Selleck’s television show “Blue Bloods” wherein Mr Selleck chastises a bit player for “waving a real gun around with his finger on the trigger”.

In news reports NRA Director Tom Selleck is cast heroically for his response to the extra’s faux pas.

Aside from the well established notion it is bad juju to publicly humiliate “the little people” the larger point should not be ignored as well: if you have joined a ship of fools about to wreck in the shoals it may make you feeeeel better to yell at the cabin boy but it sure will not keep the ship from capsizing!

As one message board commentator observed– it was the worst kind of Hollywood celebrity prima donna temper tantrum–all sound and fury with no productive outcome.

Yes, hardly a poster boy for on-screen displays of gun safety, hero Selleck has pretty big feet of clay. At the end of the day he is just one more Hollyweird drama queen who does not know squat about which he rants.

Finger on the trigger when he slaps in the magazine! Good thing the slide was not locked back!

If the situation on his show has gotten to the point an extra in costume is “waving a gun around” many, many highly paid staffers failed in their appointed duties before the extra even auditioned for the role.

While Mr. Selleck was correct to react with alacrity, his fury more properly is, and ought to be, directed toward both the prop master and producer of his show.

This is a clear-cut case of Pot. Kettle. Black.

[Copernicus]

Probably. Obviously everybody’s fault except Lord Alec hisself.

Yet another excerpt from the aforementioned 10 YEAR OLD COMMENTARY:

Thirdly, with the nearly endless variety of facsimile weapons available in the professional show business market there is almost no justification for the use of a “real firearm” on any movie,television or theatre set.

There are even realistic airsoft pistols on the general market “that will get you killed” they are so difficult to distinguish from “real guns” even at close range. The slides rack, the magazines drop, the safety operates just like a “real gun”.

I have said it before and I repeat it here: Weapons are not toys or props, not for entertainment, relaxation or sport. They are tools to be treated with utmost respect whose purpose is to put food on the table or to disable some critter with four or two legs before they harm you or your loved ones.

If presented in an entertainment venue let them be portrayed in that light and no other.

Sorry Mr. Selleck, chalk up a demerit for yourself in this little tale.

[Cottonpatch]

I read where the ‘star’ was having a money problem during the lock down, so he probably just wanted the publicity..watching a Hollywood actor kill someone on screen would probably sell a bunch of tickets.. just my opinion, haven’t read this anywhere of course..

[RummyChick]

here was my next link.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10121545/Production-crew-walked-Alec-Baldwin-movie-set-hours-tragic-shooting.html

please source all the details back to original source..or...you could just read the article

[Copernicus]

So why did he pull the trigger when the muzzle was pointed at the two directors standing in a conga line? This is a great example of the engineering term “cascade failure”. EVERYTHING has to be just right for final tragedy to occur.

https://youtu.be/AC42AwsOjKY?t=51

[TexasGator]

“here was my next link.”

Your point?

[SaxxonWoods]

Halyna Hutchins didn't kill herself.

[peggybac]

Selleck is one of us.

[eyeamok]

WHy did Alec Baldwin Kill her?? was he screwing her? maybe he raped her and ...

[TexasGator]

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[RummyChick]

you can go link all the original sources on that article for everyone since it seems to be so important to you

[RummyChick]

nah..he was cheap ... he will be paying a heavy price as producer

[McGruff]

[RummyChick]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10119387/Elijah-Wood-director-James-Gunn-react-horrifying-devastating-Alec-Baldwin-accident.html

[gundog]

My question, as well. And whoever brought it in must have had some knowledge of what ammo to bring.

[Copernicus]

I love when they say “cannot be altered”.

[MileHi]

Some serious Selleck penis envy, Mr. John Jacob H?

[Copernicus]

Yeah, I got the idea. “We are all in this together”.

(Until the food runs out!)

[Betty Jane]

This is a piece of the 911 call by the script director or writer. At about 50 seconds in, it seems like she thinks she is in hold. She is talking to someone else and casting blame for the gun. She is useless on the phone with the operator but she sounds like she is used to “phrasing” things.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/22/alec-baldwin-gun-accident-911-call-we-need-help-immediately/

[DesertRhino]

Yeah, when someone has their finger on he trigger and muzzle covering people, it’s best not to say anything to THAT person. You need to speak to the props director.

Morons.... on a range or group with guns, there is no rank. EVERYONE is a safety officer and they directly address any violations. Seconds count and there is no time to address the deeper organizational issues at that moment.

More Hollywood faggotry.

[Copernicus]

You have to wonder.

But then people always say anything when they have no argument.

I have always admired anyone who can look at issues outside the passions of the day.

Ten years later and nothing has changed in “Hollyweird”.

Think about this. Ten years.