mishandling the firearm. there s the civil aspect in which you could be civilly liable and that relates to money. and you re talking about how you handle the firearm. this gets out and you re going to be cross examined. you re going to do a deposition civilly and you will be asked questions under oath with respect to what you did and did not do. you already made statements as it relates to you handling that firearm. it s fair to say you didn t mention that you checked the firearm, is that right? you have an independent obligation to do that, don t you? you spoke about how you handled the gun and cocked the hammer back. and you know if you released it, it would put pressure on the gun such that it would go off. but that s what you did and you were pointing it at another. at the end of the day i think word is going to be parsed and it s not going to be you have a sheriff that s investigating this case, not only as to him but everybody else. what was ammunition doing in the gun? what wa
person that was a producer and actor on the show and you re giving this long winded interview? i don t think you should be doing it. i think it does come down to mishandling of the firearm. there s no question it s mishandling. the issue is whether it s mishandling of the criminal or civil variety, which is limited to money. he said it was not his responsibility to make sure it was safe. he said that s the job of the armorer or the prop person, not the actor. what do you say to that? he s partially correct and partially incorrect. the armorer s responsibility is to ensure that weapon is to be on set the way it s suppose to be, whether it s shooting blanks or not shooting. the actor is responsible for ensuring that weapon is checked before he gets it. in other words, the armorer s responsibility is to bring to weapon to the actor, demonstrate the gun is empty, if they re going to put cartridges in it, dummy rounds, shake the cartridges.
it s loud. they don t have their ear plugs in. the gun was supposed to be empty. i was told i was handed an empty gun. nothing with a charge at all, a flash round at all, nothing. she goes down. i thought to myself, did she faint? the notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me till probably 45 minutes to an hour later. 45 minutes to an hour? she s laying there and i go, did she get hit by wadding? sometimes the blank rounds have a wadding inside, that packs like cloth that packs the gun powder. sometimes wadding could come out and it feels like a poke. nobody could understand. did she have a heart attack? because remember, the idea someone put a live bullet in the gun was not even a reality. did you go up to her? i went up to her and immediately we were told to get out of the building. we were forced to get out of the building. i stood over her for 60 seconds
and if that were in fact true, as soon as he let go of the hammer it would fire the weapon, because the hammer would fall forward. so i just want to play that part of it again just for our viewers because this is really an important point. so then i said to her, now in this scene i m going cock the gun. i said, do you want to see that in and she said yes. so i take the gun and i start to cock the gun. i m not going to pull the trigger. she said tilt it down a little bit. i cock the gun and say, can you see that? then i let go of the hammer and the gun goes off. scott, you re saying the trigger would have already if the trigger was already pulled back and he had the hammer in his hand and was pulling it back and then just let it go, that would fire the gun? yes, the trigger keeps the hammer from falling.
the cameraman soar someone working a sound boom, but they have the right to inspect the guns themselves prior to using the gun in the scene. that s definitely available to them so they can inspect it themselves and know that it is what we call a cold gun, a safe gun. right. so the tragedy has had many people calling for changes in the industry, some questioning the use of firearms on sets. i m wondering what you think needs to be done to ensure that something like this never happens again. clearly the law enforcement officials need to complete their actual investigation, let there be a determination of exactly what occurred, and then we can analyze that from there. firearms have been on set since the inception of the american film industry over 100 years ago. the safety record, you know, industry-wide is very good. the guidelines are extremely