shut and it s designed specifically to create the simulation of gunfire. there is an audible bang. there is smoke. there is a bit of a muzzle flash. but there s no projectile flying downrange. now, sometimes in a movie, you would use this. but it would be inert. it wouldn t have gun powder, wouldn t have primer. you would use it because you sometimes want a tight shot of a bullet being loaded into a gun, right? sure. again, this is what we call a dummy cartridge in the industry. we manufacture those here at iss ourselves and we put a bb inside of the shell case. so you can actually rattle it by your ear and hear it and when we would be loading that into a gun on set in front of an actor, we would tell them, hey, we are loading in these rounds so that you can see that the gun s loaded on camera. but each one is a dummy and we would rattle it next to the actor s ear and then with their understanding that it is not a live round, we would go ahead
and load it into the firearm once the first ad told us that we were ready to do that. assistant director. correct. so now, we were shooting with you the other day as i said and you emphasized the only two terms that people should be hearing are hot gun and cold gun. what do each of those terms mean? so in the motion motion-picture industry, we have our own language, if you will. and two of those terms are cold gun and hot gun. a cold gun means that the gun is empty. it cannot fire. there might be dummies in it. but it cannot go bang. a hot gun means that it is ready to fire with blanks loaded up into the gun, and those callouts happen just before and after each one of the sequences on set. so a hot gun blank isn t necessarily dangerous if it is used right but it s still a hot gun because something can go bang in the gun. that is correct. my friend anderson has a couple questions for you also. larry, even if it is a dummy round as you said, it s there is no projectil
you would use it because you sometimes want a tight shot of a bullet being loaded into a gun, right? sure. again, this is what we call a dummy cartridge in the industry. we manufacture those here at iss ourselves and we put a bb inside of the shell case. so you can actually rattle it by your ear and hear it and when we would be loading that into a gun onset in front of an actor, we would tell them, hey, we are loading in these rounds so that you can see that the gun s loaded on camera. but each one is a dummy and we would rattle it next to the actor s ear and then with their understanding that it is not a live round, we would go ahead and load it into the firearm once the first ad told us that we were ready to do that. assistant director. correct. so now, we were shooting with you the other day as i said and you emphasized the only two terms that people should be hearing are hot gun and cold gun. what do each of those terms mean? so in the motion motion-picture industry, we
the gun s chamber when baldwin pulled the trigger. we believe that we have in our possession the firearm that was fired by mr. baldwin. this is this is the firearm we believe discharged the bullet. we also believe that we have the spent shell casing from the bullet that was fired from the gun. the actual lead projectile that was fired has been recovered from the shoulder of mr. souza. the projectile was recovered by medical personnel where he was being treated and turned over to the sheriff s office as evidence. we regard this specific spent casing and recovered projectile to be the live round that was fired from the revolver by mr. baldwin. an affidavit for a search warrant obtained by cnn affiliate koat contained information that the assistant director who handed baldwin the firearm had yelled cold gun meaning the gun had neither a blank, nor a live round in it.
a live bullet got into the gun? and how how close you and the fbi might be in determining what exactly happened? right now, we can t determine exactly how that live bullet got into the firearm. that s going to be the the basis for further investigation. we need more interviews and that s going to be the the million-dollar question is how a live round ended up in the revolver that mr. baldwin fired. and, sheriff, have been people cooperative during the investigation in terms of talking about what they know? initially, we got statements from the the three individuals mr. baldwin, mr. halls, and ms. gutierrez. we would like to get further statements, and most of those individuals are being cooperative. um, district attorney, you told cnn today that knowing how live rounds got into the gun that mr. baldwin used will be