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What baffles me is why they don't create guns that are incapable of firing live rounds. It should be mechanically impossible to fire a live round. The blanks sh
by istjohn 4y ago
What baffles me is why they don't create guns that are incapable of firing live rounds. It should be mechanically impossible to fire a live round. The blanks should be keyed or shaped in such a way that guns capable of loading and/or firing them cannot load live rounds unless someone deliberately counterfeits a blank.
- andrewfromx 4y agoI think the argument against that is art and style of guns. You want one specific look for your scene and the cost to make a replica like you explain above is > just finding the real gun.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoWhy not find a real gun that looks right for the part, and then run a blob of weld down the inside of the barrel? Why would you even have live rounds on set?
- mhb 4y agoUnsurprisingly, TFA, its comments, and associated links address these issues.
- marcus0x62 4y ago> Why not find a real gun that looks right for the part, and then run a blob of weld down the inside of the barrel? If you did this, and then fired a live round in the gun, it could injure or kill the person holding the gun or someone nearby. > Why would you even have live rounds on set? I cannot imagine there's any acceptable reason to have live rounds on set, and it seems like whoever put live rounds on this movie set should have some explaining to do, at the very least.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago> If you did this, and then fired a live round in the gun, it could injure or kill the person holding the gun or someone nearby. All the more reason to be careful how you load it, then.
- slingnow 4y agoSo, the same scenario we're currently in. Jamming a gun barrel so the bullet can't leave the chamber isn't a method of making a gun safe.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoBut if it was *your* hand that was getting blown off if the gun was incorrectly loaded, you'd make pretty damn sure it was right every time you picked it up.
- justahuman74 4y ago> Why would you even have live rounds on set? I'm going to guess "because america"
- roywiggins 4y agoThey do, they're called blank guns or signal guns.
- jfengel 4y agoWe use those on theatrical stages, where the muzzle flash is less important than safety. It would still be very dangerous to put a live round in one, and unfortunately they do tend to be sized to take regular ammunition (loaded with gunpowder but no projectile). But at least if somebody did put a live round in it, it would not be a death sentence for whoever it was pointed at. As on a movie set, the prop is only ever touched by the armorer and the actor who uses it (who is not supposed to open it unless it's called for in the script).
- avisser 4y agoIt's a catch-22 in the US. You can't have a non-lethal gun that looks like a lethal one because the cops will shoot you. Once it looks different, they don't want it in a movie.
- lesuorac 4y agoJust green screen out the orange tip.
- onepointsixC 4y agoIt really isn't. There are competent gun smiths who modify guns to ensure that only blanks can be fired. Real bullets could not be chambered.
- avisser 4y agoSure, but now you've made it a custom product. Small movies will just use real guns + blanks.
- onepointsixC 4y agoThere are armorers who already have all of these custom products and have used them on many, many movies. This movie cheaped out on that and had a armorer who was very inexperienced.
- baud147258 4y agoDidn't they had one on set of the movie?