Wasn't there some kind of legislation or workplace safety rule introduced after Brandon Lee was killed? To prevent such accidents from happening in the future?
Here's how I would run it: all prop guns must be examined by three different, qualified individuals before being handed directly to the actor. Each inspector would inspect the weapon, the blanks, fire a few test rounds, then sign off. This extreme redundancy appears to be necessary, given that this happened again. And accidents may still happen, but with that level of inspection, I think I would feel safe.
I read earlier that a bunch of staff walked off set before the shooting because of the lack of safety protocol. I don't know how true that is.
Seems to be true, but it happened hours prior, and non-union workers were brought in.
Which might explain things.
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