also, when we say going live on set, as you said, going live doesn t mean that we are using live ammo, it means that we are about to do something noisy, we are doing the real thing. we are going live, we are gonna blow up the, carver gonna load the gun with the blanks. it doesn t mean that we are putting real ammunition and bullets into guns that and handling them onset. steve, because of all of the safety protocols that are being used, including, as you just described, making sure that you are using a realistic looking weapon that is operable but it cannot be loaded with live ammunition. the kind of safety rules that i just showed that our standard in terms of what people how people are trained to work around these kinds of firearms onset because of what we know about the industry standards of safety briefings of everybody who is involved in a shoe to has a firearm involved in anyway. it seems very surprising given the current state of how things
yesterday morning before the incident happened. we are learning more tonight there is reportedly a series of issues with the prop guns onset there were calls for safety concerns among crew members, before yesterday, still a lot of unanswered questions today, joining us now steve wulf a weapon safety expert, who is involved in the investigation of the brantley investigation, mr. wolf it s a real pleasure to have with us. thanks rachel, it s a pleasure to be with, you and i almost feel like you don t need me here, you got. this let me ask if i explain this well, when i was talking about blanks and the differences between blanks and, bullets that was all the way it supposed to be explained? you nailed it. you could ve done ten times on the baldwin set. [inaudible] this is should be
part of the relevant backdrop for this truly bizarre and terrible story that we will we all woke up to this morning that we cannot avoid talking about it. you ve seen the headlines. yesterday, on the set of a western filming in new mexico, the actor alec baldwin fired a gun that was supposed to be a prop in the scene. the resulting shot killed the films cinematographer. 42 year old woman named halyna hutchins, she was considered to be a rising star in her field, she was the cinematographer. the film s director was also injured in this incident. he has been released from the hospital. but when it comes to figuring out how this could ve happened, the questions that come to the four are simple and mystifying. how does the prop gun resulted in a real shooting? in some cases, a prop gun is literally something that is not a gun at, all it has no working parts, it is something made out of rubber or plastic. it is designed to have a gun shape. some but if you are watching a movie or tv show