Posted on 05/01/2013 9:47:13 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
The sweeping gun control measure signed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and hailed by Democratic leaders has a surprising critic: Hollywood.
Officials in the movie and television industry say the new laws could prevent them from using the lifelike assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that they have employed in shows like “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and films like “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Twenty-seven pilots, television and feature projects, including programs like “Blue Bloods” and “Person of Interest,” are now in production in New York State using assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Industry workers say that they need to use real weapons for verisimilitude, that it would be impractical to try to manufacture fake weapons that could fire blanks, and that the entertainment industry should not be penalized accidentally by a law intended as a response to mass shootings.
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“You’d hate to lose a $100 million picture because there was a scene in it that required automatic weapons and we were unable to accommodate them,” said John Ford, the president of Local 52 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
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Now industry workers are pleading for elected officials to take a second look. Mr. Washburn, the theatrical armorer, said he had already made two trips to Albany, and had spoken to at least 20 lawmakers as well as aides to the governor.
Mr. Washburn, who recently finished filming “A Walk Among the Tombstones,” a movie starring Liam Neeson, at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, said Albany lawmakers should not underestimate how quickly one of the state’s most prosperous industries could shrink.
“Our generators are on wheels, our carts are on wheels, our trucks are on wheels,” he said. “Everything is on wheels, and it goes where it’s wanted.”
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The Dark Knight Rises was filmed mostly here on location in Pittsburgh, where you are free to walk around with toy guns all day and all night if you wish.
Simple - film makers should go elsewhere and let New York know why.
If anything let’s ban having guns used in films.
I think the EPA should get involved in all these explosions in film. They are polluting our environment for the sake of gratuitous violence.
I think NY ought to suck it up and lose the films. All the libs in the film industry voted for those laws and voted for the knobs who passed those gun laws. Now they don’t want to have to live under the consequences of the laws they wanted passed? Tough crap.
No, they just do what every liberal since time began does - they beg to be exempted from the very laws they were FROTHING AT THE MOUTH and demanding be passed.
IF THEIR LOGIC WAS THAT LAW ABIDING PEOPLE WITH NO BAD INTENT CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH THESE GUNS, then THEY TOO CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
No exemption. Besides criminals could easily target them and steal these automatic weapons from them. (They use this argument all the time against gun owners.) They don’t have real ammo in them just blanks, so they couldn’t defend themselves against one punk with a derringer.
Maybe they should just pass a law-abiding citizen exemption.
After all what we really want is criminal control, not gun control. I am sorry I forgot that NY and Bloomberg really do want gun control and don't care about stopping criminal violence.
verisimilitude
I've got to write that one down. High point Scrabble potential there.
Hollywood glorifies guns, money, sex, sodomy, drugs, and revolution. Then claims the media has no impact on human behavior.
Right.
They don’t even need guns to make movies. Half of Hollywood’s product these days is already a damn computer cartoon as it is. Just fake the guns with CGI. NO firepower necessary for Hollywood reds.
“If anything let’s ban having guns used in films.”
I agree. The actors should have bananas instead of guns and whether fire them they have to say bang bang.
Hollywood protesting for gun rights. THEIR gun rights.
Hypocrites.
Why should they be allowed to make money promoting gun violence yet advocate restricting gun rights?
***Industry workers say that they need to use real weapons for verisimilitude, that it would be impractical to try to manufacture fake weapons that could fire blanks, ****
I read in a gun magazine years ago, that movie guns in NY are real but welded up so they cannot be used with real cartridges. Such props must be approved by the NYPD.
Has something changed?
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