Yes, it is sounding unusual.
There were enough precursor firearms safety incidents, union job actions, inexperienced "experts and past behavior and attitudes of actors that the filming should have been suspended for a safety review, and proper set safety procedures implemented and enforced.
No live ammunition is needed on set with actors or crew, Computer Generated firearm discharges are so good the audience cannot tell the difference.
Blanks ammunition is sometimes necessary for actors reactions and cues in particular scenes, but Computer Generated images will perfectly represent projectile impact on any object.
Certainly a lot of powerful people didn't care if something bad happened, they wouldn't take the fall.
“Blanks ammunition is sometimes necessary”
If it’s a just a blank then it’s not ammunition. Ammo is for killing and wounding or just hitting a bulls-eye...or for Albanians and Arabs to shoot into the air during wedding receptions and funeral wakes.
Why don’t Albanians and Arabs use blanks when they do that sh*t?
The “John Wick” films have replaced all the blood “squibs” and some of the actual shooting with CGI. It would be a no-brainer to replace semi-auto’s with prop guns that cycled. In fact, some of the newer airsoft guns cycle and look just like the real thing while doing it.
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