Posted on 04/02/2011 6:03:41 AM PDT by marktwain
TOM Selleck has quite the temper!
The actor apparently flew off the handle when an extra on the set of his TV show Blue Bloods picked up a real gun and started pointing it at people!
The extra — who was playing a cop but had never held a real gun — was horrified when Tom, a lifelong gun enthusiast and board member of the National Rifle Association, spotted him and yelled, “Hey, YOU! What the HELL are you doing? That gun’s NOT a toy — stop waving it around!”
“Look at you…your finger’s STILL ON THE TRIGGER!”
According to American tabloid the National Enquirer, the extra then squirmed, “Is the gun really loaded?”
Selleck replied, “No, it’s not loaded. But when you handle a gun it’s common sense to assume it IS loaded, and NOT point it at people!”
Tom Selleck did the right thing I think all of us on FR believe he was correct.
Tom Selleck did the right thing I think all of us on FR believe he was correct, at least those of us who know about guns.
You’re right. The gun was actually loaded with blanks. The bullet that killed him was lodged in the barrel from an unnoticed squib load from a previous scene. The combination of the squib and the blank made it a loaded gun.
‘Folks must remember that Hollywood actors (and extras) are nearly 100% illiterates ‘
That’s really all you need.
“...but one must still obey the rule “Don’t point it at anybody”...”
Very true. And Tom Selleck was completely in the right.
There was a young actor a few years ago, Jon Erik something, that killed himself on a TV show set playing with a gun.
Good for Tom. Gun safety is paramount. He’s right.
I posted before I read your post!
I’m not the only one that remembers that accident.
I’d hit it!
(well, if I wasn’t married, and he wasn’t married, and we actually had a loving relationship)
I’d hit it!
(well, if I wasn’t married, and he wasn’t married, and we actually had a loving relationship)
FR needs a ‘like’ button.
Sellecks Jesse Stone series is also very good.
Quigly was good I like Laura San Giaconno One of Selleck imho best work was in a movie Innocent man
Also many gun classes will tell you to NEVER put your finger on the trigger til you are ready to fire.
***There is no excuse for mishandling weapons.***
How true. I am reminded of the death of Oklahoma Indian Artist Jerome Tiger, by his own mishandling of a pistol at a very young age. what great works of art, that could have been, have been lost by his early death.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Tiger
Lee didn’t do anything wrong. He was just acting in a scene. He died because the prop man screwed up by not understanding what he was dealing with.
Hexum’s death was caused by his own carelessness with an “unloaded” firearm.
I still remember Hexum’s death. It was quite a shock at the time. He was an up and coming actor who had been in several TV shows before he landed that series. He was a Hollywood muscle boy, much like Schwarzenegger, only prettier.
First thing that came to my mind as well.
LOL. Get in line, sister!
Bravo for Selleck!
By its very nature, the entertainment industry violates gun safety rules all the time. To obtain realism, they use functioning firearms and point them at persons they do not intend to shoot.
Hollywood even has legal exemptions from some of the bans on so-called "assault weapons" and true automatic weapons. They are the elite and no doubt feel no obligation to address the matter more systematically as any other industry would be forced to do.
The "extra" described in the article should have had training which required him to verify the condition of the firearm every time it was picked up, to only pick it up and point it when absolutely necessary to produce the entertainment product, and to never violate the gun safety rules "unnecessarily".
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