And I’ve got military and Law Enforcement training plus over 60 years of hunting and competition shooting with pistols, rifles and shotguns. We throw all that out the window when we step on a movie set, it’s a completely different set of rules and none of them agree with yours are mine. And by the way, their all idiots and none can be trusted.
A few years ago I was at an auction in Houston where many old Colt’s and Winchesters were available. I met a gentleman who’s been in the movie industry and supplies weapons and has been the armorer on many movie set’s. Since we’re both collectors of old Colt’s and Winchesters we stay in touch. I even loaned him a rifle and a pistol he needed for several scenes an actor needed in a movie they were shooting in Arizona. When he supplies the weapons on a shot he’s the sole armorer. I gave him a call and asked him about this. First off he didn’t have anything good about the company they used to supply the weapons need for the film in question. He also said that his whole business depends on his ability to not just provide weapons for movies but to insure the safety of those weapons. First thing he said about this incident was too many people handling that weapon, a situation he would never allow. Second thing he said was nobody handles that weapon but me, I trust nobody. He said he will show anybody asking that the weapon is safe and properly loaded but will not allow them to check it themselves. Might add that he said it sounded like this whole production was/is a cluster truck that he would never allow his company to get involved with. If you’ve seen the movie Tombstone you’ve seen this man, he’s also an actor.
It's amazing how few gun people from activists to instructors understand this concept. John Lott wrote a piece for AmericanThinker that I commented was totally embarrassing. Lott was clearly pontificating on a subject he knew nothing about. Standard firearms safety rules and protocols have little to nothing to do with gun safety on a movie set, period. Again in my opinion 2nd amendment supporters have really made themselves look stupid when commenting about this story.