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To: Copernicus

Didn’t Brandon Lee kill himself with a blank round thinking it was safe ?


2 posted on 10/22/2021 4:43:14 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: butlerweave

“Didn’t Brandon Lee kill himself with a blank round thinking it was safe ?”

Nope.


4 posted on 10/22/2021 4:47:17 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: butlerweave

Didn’t Brandon Lee kill himself with a blank round thinking it was safe ?

Brandon was killed in a scene where he was shot by “Funboy”. The prop gun had a a piece of a 44cal lodged in the barrel from weeks before. It was a complete failure or safety protocol.


8 posted on 10/22/2021 4:50:27 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: butlerweave

That was Jon-Erik Hexum.

Brandon Lee was a little different.

“On March 31, 1993, the 28-year-old died after being hit by a .44-caliber slug while filming a death scene. The gun was supposed to have fired a blank, but an autopsy turned up a bullet lodged near his spine.”

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/alec-baldwin-rust-shooting-accident-brandon-lee-jon-erik-hexum-tragedy


11 posted on 10/22/2021 4:55:09 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (OUT OF FB JAIL! and back on the attack. For how long? Back in jail again! 4th time this year!)
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To: butlerweave
Didn’t Brandon Lee kill himself with a blank round thinking it was safe ?

There's several versions but the short story is the remains of a live round was in the gun barrel and no one cleared it before loading a blank. It killed him.

13 posted on 10/22/2021 4:58:02 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: butlerweave

Brandon Lee, John Eric Hexum.

CC


18 posted on 10/22/2021 5:05:43 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: butlerweave

Didn’t Brandon Lee kill himself with a blank round thinking it was safe ?

No. Brando was killed by a dummy round that I believe sheared off and hit him in the gut severing an artery.

The one you are thinking of is Jon Erik Huxum. He was playing with a gun and had unloaded all but one blank round, spun it, and simulating Russian roulette, he put the revolver to his right temple and pulled the trigger, and the blank paper wad went through his temple and killed him.


23 posted on 10/22/2021 5:17:50 PM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian ( Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less! )
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