"Accident" ...my @ss...

Why was he firing a gun of any kind at his director of photography in the first place? As a joke? That's what I don't understand.

Jon Eric-Hexum on the TV series Cover-Up also died from a blank discharge. Fooling around on the set, he held a prop handgun to his temple, pulled the trigger, and pulled the trigger. He thought it was all in good fun.

The blast blew shards of his scull bones into his brain. He died. “Blanks” are filled with fucking GUMPOWDER. It’s not a toy.

Brandon Lee would have been a MAJOR action star and maybe even Movie Star had he continued. I don’t think Eric-Hexum have been a movie star (at least not A-List), but could have been a Dolph Lundgren-like personality presence.

Why the hell didn’t movie sets confiscate all firearms after the set was shot? That is criminally stupid. Most actors have no Firearm training.

That’s what it is . Alec was not the prop person on set . He probably just fired a prop gun he was handed

Yes, it was something like that. After Lee's death, I believe they put stricter rules in place. In Lee's case, I remember they were using real bullets to make the prop bullets. That surprised me. I thought on movie sets they uses blanks and dummies that were specially made for that. On The Crow they just had people in the prop department modifying actual bullets to use for filming.

I'm curious what happened here. The rules are stricter, but that doesn't matter if people ignore those rules.

I think Brandon Lee was killed by an actual bullet that had become lodged partway up the barrel due to firing a cartridge that had no powder but had a primer that pushed the bullet out of the cartridge and into the bore - I have done this with a rifle, it does happen.

Then in a later scene the same gun was used with blanks, which did have enough power to push the forgotten bullet out of the gun at lethal speed.

It is known that guns that shoot blanks can still be dangerous. I was taught this even as a child.

Because the first rule of guns is never point them at anyone unless you want to kill them. Doesn't matter if its a unloaded gun or a gun loaded with blanks you don't point them at people. Pointing a gun at someone in Arizona is aggravated assault. Clearly he didn't just point it at someone he pulled the fucking trigger. He should be arrested for negligent homicide at the very least.

Only an idiot would think you could point a gun with blanks at someone. The fact is a gun used in a movie is almost always a real gun, it is simply loaded with blanks but that doesn't make it safe to point at someone. Hell even when I was a kid and went to Six Flags when they had the fake gunfights they would tell people to stay back for safety and then demonstrate how dangerous a gun firing blanks was by shooting a glass of water to show it blowing the glass apart.

We don't know one way or another, the news articles I read offered no details and nobody here has any.

So given his history of anger issues and general assholery it's possible he may have been doing something inappropriate with the prop gun, but we don't know one way or another.

And where was he standing ?

It's full of Leftard Baldwin fans/apologists too

Wah wah wah.

Exactly! MC was taken over by right wingers a long time ago and the admins encourage such behavior. Such a shame, since this was supposed to be the follow up to the great IMBD-board.

Nailed it there! Far too many of them too.

I haven't been kicked off any platform, and the reason this platform shifts right because it is unmoderated, and that happens in virtually all unmoderated forums. To get a platform to be , I don't want to say left (because I am a liberal), but establishment leaning is through censorship and manipulation, be it through amplification, paying schills or using botnets. They do it to create the appearance that the establishment position is the majority, and many, particularly women, would rather be a part of the majority than be right, so they adopt the message being forced on them.

When firing a single-action revolver supposedly loaded with blanks, you would think that the sight of a crew member falling down would prevent you from cocking and firing a second time.