Hollywood likes to use real guns because they are right-wing gun-fetishist assholes exploiting a handful of real creatives they say a prop can’t mimic the weight distribution and feel of holding the real deal. There is a lot of objection that it matters in the final product, but that’s the reason given.
And so there are rules, so that everyone can get their jobs done without worrying about unsecured live weapons on set, but the rules depend on humans to follow them.
The people whose job it was to take care of the guns on this set had to quit because they weren’t being allowed to do their jobs.
Some people in the industry don’t want real guns on set because it will always come with a risk like this. But if I’m not mistaken, the current preference is in favor of real weapons for the big names in Hollywood. Unless you can get it in your contract, you just have to go along with it or not take the job.
Actually, prop guns do exist and I’m not talking about the ones that shoot blanks.
Or have you never seen a cosplayer with a gun?
There are realistic looking prop guns that are built without a firing mechanism. Without, meaning it never existed in the design.
Hollywood likes to use real guns because
they are right-wing gun-fetishist assholes exploiting a handful of real creativesthey say a prop can’t mimic the weight distribution and feel of holding the real deal. There is a lot of objection that it matters in the final product, but that’s the reason given.And so there are rules, so that everyone can get their jobs done without worrying about unsecured live weapons on set, but the rules depend on humans to follow them.
The people whose job it was to take care of the guns on this set had to quit because they weren’t being allowed to do their jobs.
Some people in the industry don’t want real guns on set because it will always come with a risk like this. But if I’m not mistaken, the current preference is in favor of real weapons for the big names in Hollywood. Unless you can get it in your contract, you just have to go along with it or not take the job.