Posted on 10/26/2021 4:11:48 PM PDT by Ennis85
It is, apparently, Hollywood movie set custom to shout out 'cold gun' before handing an actor a firearm on set. It's meant to confirm that the weapon is not real, or at least not loaded with a real bullet, but here's the question that's puzzling the non-movie world ever since we heard the shocking news that Alec Baldwin had accidentally shot a camera-woman dead on set last Thursday- how could a real bullet get into a film set in the first place? Why require reassurance about something, a 'hot gun', that should never be remotely possible in the such a setting? I doubt that the Kin actors need confirmation that their guns aren't real or loaded, so this is clearly yet another tragedy born of America's gun fetish. In a country where it's your 'right' to carry a deadly weapon, it's probably easier for a low-buget film-maker to get a real gun than a costly replica with dummy bullets.
Waiting for herr hogg to weigh in....................
My understanding is they are replicas. And replicas fire real bullets. You can tell the author is clueless.
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We need Diva Control.
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I have been watching some real cheap 1950s horror movies from way back then.
I noticed the revolvers they used went Bang but no flash or gas exited the barrel. This told me the BANG was dubbed in using guns without blanks or any ammo. A true Cold Gun.
Give an anti-gun freak a gun and this is what happens
one unfortunate accident out of over 400 million firearms in USA
and leftist media all around the world are writing bullsheit
ps: every Irishman I’ve ever known had at least a couple firearms to defend himself and his home
they’re intelligent people
“they’re intelligent people”
Not all of them, apparently.
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If it were Clint Eastwood that pulled the trigger (he’s too intelligent to do such a thing) would he also be a victim of the ‘gun culture?’
What nonsense. The gun did exactly what the humans made it do and no more.
Let’s go Baldwin!
good point
I have no idea what they used to use but I watched interviews with Dean Cain and John Schneider on YouTube and true prop guns are rubber. Replicas for historicals are real guns.
Nope. She was a victim of the anti-gun culture. No member of the “gun culture” would casually point a gun at someone and pull the trigger
Is that little Nazi apparatchik still even around? I had thought he got laughed out of existence when he was going to go into competition with Mike Lindell, making pillows or something.
Mike Lindell is hanging tough, that is for sure.
If the gun is in your hand, you are responsible for it.
Case closed.
Hogwash.
Mr. Alec Baldwin is an anti-gunner.
If not told, he is on record spouting misinformation , misidentification of firearm parts, misidentification of types.
He is an actor, which means he speaks others words, and mimics others for pay.
There is not one authentic iota in him.
Actual, that camera operator was a victim of Hollywood Culture.
Alec Baldwin has shot 2 more people than I ever did, and he killed one more than I ever did.
Yet I’m the one who shouldn’t be able to own a gun.
Yeah. No.
“it’s probably easier for a low-buget film-maker to get a real gun than a costly replica with dummy bullets.”
An Alec Baldwin movie isn’t “low-budget”. Stay on topic.
There’s no reason for a high-profile “gun safety advocate” with a massive budget to find it inconvenient to ensure a hot gun isn’t fired at cast & crew.
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