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Expert clark aposhian, who also has extensive experience working as a weapons handler on hollywood film productions. what sort of precautions to film sets of this calibre how on earth does a prompt and kill a person? kill a person? well, i prop gun dozens, kill a person? well, i prop gun dozens. quite kill a person? well, i prop gun dozens, quite honestly. - kill a person? well, i prop gun dozens, quite honestly. an - dozens, quite honestly. an actualfirearm dozens, quite honestly. an actual firearm that s firing blanks will do that. i mean, pf°p blanks will do that. i mean, prop guns, if they are literally prop guns, they are made out of rubber sometimes, sometimes they have a few moving parts and theyjust add a flash and some smoke in postproduction, sometimes they will have a little propane burst that will come out of them, but they are incapable of firing actual ammunition, but, some of the lower budget films, they will use actual firearms because then they can find period ....
Emily describe the word use the word unfathomable to describe what happened. given the job that you do, is it unfathomable that this kind of thing could have resulted in death, in this kind of injury? i mean, personally, i don t understand how live guns are even used on a set. i didn t think guns were live on movie sets, right? everything else can be fake. right. right. that s aer jo misconception that a lot of people have. as i have said before a lot of times you will go on set and weapons are handled as props, and they should never be handled as props. any of these firearms that are firing blanks are real firearms. they are, you know, the real thing. some of them, if they are modern, have been converted mechanically to be able to fire blanks. and some of the older ones that are used in period pieces require no conver. they are simply loaded with blanks and mechanically discharged through a mechanism. ....
Load, you mean gunpowder for instance. exactly. so, get me through this. in terms of the guns used on set, you talked about prop guns are they typically real firearms that are modified? or prop guns that can t fire am institution and just fire blanks? the question i m getting from people here, if it is a prop gun, firing blanks, is there ever a projectile that comes out that can hurt somebody? yeah, it s a great question. again, prop guns take all shapes and sizes. there are rubber stunt versions that you might use with a performer falling off a roof, running down the street. throwing a prop. that s made of some type of rubber. then you get the type of prop guns that are manufactured to only shoot blanks. they were never real guns. we call them nonguns. blank-firing nonguns. a blank say charge of powder ....
Will grant, bbc news. this is bbc news. our main story: more details emerge on how the actor alec baldwin accidentally shot dead a crew member on the set of his latest film. court documents suggest he was told the gun was safe. let s have more on that. earlier, i spoke to firearms and film set safety expert clark aposhian and asked how such an accident could ever happen. well, a prop gun doesn t, quite honestly. an actual firearm well, a prop gun doesn t, quite honestly. an actualfirearm but his firing blanks will do that. you can have a proper i think proper guns, if they literally are, they are made out of rubber sometimes and sometimes they have few moving parts that they have few moving parts that they add a flash and some smoke ....
Happened before. back in 1993, brandon lee, son of martial arts legend bruce lee, was killed after a bullet was left in a prop gun on the set of the movie the crow. prop guns are supposed to work by firing blanks, gunpowder charges that produce the flash and the bang, not a hard projectile, but they can still be dangerous if the paper or plastic ejected from the barrel is fired at a close range. that is what happened on a tv show set back in 1984, when actor john eric hexum fired a blank at his head at such close range that the wadding in the prop gun hit him with such force, it killed him. joining me now, nbc news correspondent juan vinegas. gaud, alec baldwin calls this a tragic accident and that s what ....