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Tom Selleck Loses Temper With Gun-Toting Extra
showbizspy.com ^ | 1 April, 2011 | NA

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!”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; gun; safety; selleck
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To: marktwain

Tom Selleck did the right thing I think all of us on FR believe he was correct.


81 posted on 04/02/2011 7:50:48 AM PDT by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: marktwain

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.


82 posted on 04/02/2011 7:51:39 AM PDT by Rappini (Pro Deo et Patria)
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To: fr_freak

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.


83 posted on 04/02/2011 7:54:08 AM PDT by Malone LaVeigh
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To: MasterGunner01

‘Folks must remember that Hollywood actors (and extras) are nearly 100% illiterates ‘

That’s really all you need.


84 posted on 04/02/2011 8:00:23 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: fr_freak

“...but one must still obey the rule “Don’t point it at anybody”...”

Very true. And Tom Selleck was completely in the right.


85 posted on 04/02/2011 8:01:24 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Poor history is better than good fiction, and anything with lots of horses is better still)
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To: marktwain

There was a young actor a few years ago, Jon Erik something, that killed himself on a TV show set playing with a gun.


86 posted on 04/02/2011 8:03:49 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: marktwain

Good for Tom. Gun safety is paramount. He’s right.


87 posted on 04/02/2011 8:03:53 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: farmguy

I posted before I read your post!

I’m not the only one that remembers that accident.


88 posted on 04/02/2011 8:04:59 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: workerbee

I’d hit it!

(well, if I wasn’t married, and he wasn’t married, and we actually had a loving relationship)


89 posted on 04/02/2011 8:07:33 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: workerbee

I’d hit it!

(well, if I wasn’t married, and he wasn’t married, and we actually had a loving relationship)


90 posted on 04/02/2011 8:07:39 AM PDT by mom4melody
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To: trisham

FR needs a ‘like’ button.


91 posted on 04/02/2011 8:12:40 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Sellecks Jesse Stone series is also very good.


92 posted on 04/02/2011 8:31:29 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are at your door! How will you answer the knock?)
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To: fuzzybutt

Quigly was good I like Laura San Giaconno One of Selleck imho best work was in a movie Innocent man


93 posted on 04/02/2011 8:34:35 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: blueyon

Also many gun classes will tell you to NEVER put your finger on the trigger til you are ready to fire.


94 posted on 04/02/2011 8:35:24 AM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: Red in Blue PA

***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


95 posted on 04/02/2011 8:55:29 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Click my name. See my home page, if you dare!)
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To: Malone LaVeigh; mom4melody

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.


96 posted on 04/02/2011 8:57:43 AM PDT by farmguy
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To: pabianice

First thing that came to my mind as well.


97 posted on 04/02/2011 9:00:37 AM PDT by Tolsti2
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To: mom4melody

LOL. Get in line, sister!


98 posted on 04/02/2011 9:05:24 AM PDT by workerbee (We're not scared, Maobama -- we're pissed off!)
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To: marktwain

Bravo for Selleck!


99 posted on 04/02/2011 9:12:26 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: marktwain
There's an important point that I haven't seen addressed on this thread.

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".

100 posted on 04/02/2011 9:14:32 AM PDT by William Tell
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