The assistant director, Dave Halls, had previously told a detective that he should have more thoroughly checked the gun before Alec Baldwin handled it, according to an affidavit.
Armorer Larry Zanoff of Independent Studio Services, one of the world’s largest prop houses, walks us through how a weapon should be safely handled on set from preproduction to the end of a scene.
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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
thank you. i want to go next to our gary tuchman in los angeles with motion picture armorer larry zanoff. larry, i appreciate you guys being with us and, larry, good to see you. yeah, larry is a modest guy but he is a renowned motion picture armorer. he s been the chiefs weapons safety officer at scores of movies and television shows over the years. we are outside the independent studio services prop house right now north of los angeles. huge place with every prop imaginable for the entertainment industry. first question i want to ask you, the other day we got a chance to shoot with you, to learn more about the guns and the ammunition. but the thing that you told me that really stuck in my mind there should never be live rounds on a set in a weapon in an actor s hands, correct? that s correct. the industry-wide safety bulletin number one which governs the use of firearms and blank ammunition on set clearly states that no live rounds are ever to be brought onto a studio lot or