• @AngryishHumanoid
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    81 year ago

    Do you follow the 4 rules every time someone hands you a Nerf gun? What would happen if someone handed you a gun disguised as a Nerf gun and you shot and killed someone with it? Would you be at fault? No, you didn’t know it was a real, working gun. Whether you agree with the reality that the guns used on movie sets are a combination of real guns, decommissioned real guns, and straight up prop guns: if someone hands you a gun and says “This gun has blanks in it” and you shoot and kill someone with it… how would that be different from the disguised Nerf gun scenario?

    • @BrotherL0v3
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      -91 year ago

      Well, a Nerf gun is a toy and a gun is a gun. If someone hands you a gun disguised as a toy, I agree that you shouldn’t be held responsible for accidentally shooting someone.

      However, I don’t think that comparison tracks for guns loaded with blanks / deactivated firearms / prop guns. Pointing something that has any reasonable chance of being a not-disguised gun at someone and pulling the trigger is something you should refuse to do.

      • @AngryishHumanoid
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        1 year ago

        So if instead of a Western it was a sci fi movie and the gun was made up to look like a laser blaster and it fired and killed someone the actor would have a better defense?

        • @BrotherL0v3
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          01 year ago

          Sure, that makes sense to me. I guess it stands to reason that the less something looks like a gun, the more understandable it is that someone would fail to follow the rules of gun safety while handling it.

          And to be clear, none of what I say is meant to absolve the armorer. To my mind, all of the following are true:

          • The practice of using functional firearms alongside non-functional prop guns is dangerous and leads to incidents like this.
          • The armorer was negligent in letting a real round into a gun that was being used to shoot a scene (why were there even live rounds around to begin with?).
          • It is reckless and dangerous to point a real gun loaded with blanks at someone, and doubly so to pull the trigger. No scene in a movie is worth that risk, and everyone who decided the scene had to go that way shares the blame if something goes wrong.
          • Anyone who knows they will be handling a gun has a responsibility to learn how to do so safely.