film sets from time to time but nothing like this. so he is in shock and we are in constant contact, he s worried about his family, his kids and we are eagerly awaiting to tell us what their investigation has revealed. in terms of the shooting excel, he s not sure if he will use a firearm honest betting ever again but he s extremely interested in the ongoing efforts to limit use of firearms on film sets going forward. they can listen. i do know an ongoing effort for the use of firearms onset is something i am actually interested in but remember, something i think is important, how many bullets have been fire- [inaudible] this is america, how many
fire. in terms of that fire, he actually talked about feeling the wind from the shotgun, was, in his words, intense, scary and real. the scene that he sets up there of what this was like onset, is that something that you ve seen before when you re dealing with firearms onset, whether they re loaded or not, the picture he paints doesn t seem to gel with what we ve heard from other folks. that s a front investigators. they ll have to wade through all these different statements and see who is telling the closest version to the truth that they can get and also supported by the physical evidence they ve seized in the search warrant. i want to make sure my question didn t come off the wrong way. what i meant is not that he s telling a different story from other cast or crew members. but we ve had a lot of conversations over the last several days with prop masters, folks onset, maybe a technical
lot of guns are fired, on the mayor of east town they decided that every fine of every gun would be all cgi, it was all special effects. they didn t use prop guns loaded with blanks. they maybe lost the authentic recoil, and alive muzzle flash that they would ve cut from using plants, but they decided that it wasn t worth the risk. they added in all of that after the facts, and a lot of productions do that now. but, a lot of movie and tv says study do use real sets. the prague massacre will annals all the props, if there are guns been used, that person can sometimes be assisted by and it s a specialist, an arm or, someone who specializes in weaponry for film in tv sets. as you can imagine, the entertainment industry has very strict rules for using firearms onset. this is from some of the industry wide labor commission, these are some of the rules they put out about guns on set.
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
of safety rules that i just showed that are standard in terms of what people are how people are trained to work around these kinds of firearms onset because of what we know about this sort of industry standards around safety briefings for everybody involved in a shoot that s got a firearm involved in it in any way, it just seems very surprising given the current state of how these things are handled in the industry that this could happen. it seems like there s so many safeguards this should be impossible. yes. it is to the point where you can t hurt somebody by breaking a rule. you can hurt someone if you break multiple rules. so when you use an unmodified firearm that can accept live ammo . when you put that live ammo in it. when you point the gun at a person, you have now broken three rules that lead you down the road towards accidental homicides. any one of these things you know, let s say you have a live gun and put real ammo in it but