From my experience in the national guard it was very obvious at even a casual glance which rounds were live and which were blank. Is there some other kind of blank that looks like a live round?
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They were not doing a scene that called for him to point and shoot gun.
He was F’ing around.
Yeas there are but it was the armorer’s job.
There are dummy rounds that look real but they also are supposed to be identifiable. In any case no round that looks like a live round should have been inserted in the revolver. And Baldwin still should have checked.
Anyone but a Hollywood star would be under arrest by now.
Yes, in movies they use dummies, which are made to look like live rounds. They are somewhat harder to tell from live rounds than blanks are.
Dummy rounds look exactly like live rounds. From what i've read, the only distinguishing mark is that some dummy rounds will have a hole drilled in the side of the brass, but these are considered lower quality dummy rounds.
It is my understanding that most movie sets use dummy rounds without the holes drilled in them, and they are indistinguishable from real bullets except for one characteristic. They have a ball bearing installed in them, and when you shake them, they rattle.
This is the only means of telling if a bullet is real or fake.