They dont. I know people who do REAL old west gun fights in old ghost towns. They all use old black powder arms loaded blanked. Obviously none of it close range because it still would kill you.
They have done this for decades with NO accidents.
I have to assume that Hollywood could do better than a local club of wanna be cowboys.
This in addition to how in the cases in which any real danger is present (real explosions / fire / dangerous machinery / etc. ) there is ALWAYS a full emergency crew on set. Which means an amberlamps and a number of fire fighters if relevant.
I remember seeing one of those when I was a kid and being impressed that real smoke came out of the barrel.
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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