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Propel out of the gun. thats the stuff that goes bang and lets off the flash, but it is the bullet that is the actual projectile thats fired out of the end of the barrel. now, if a gun is loaded with a blank, that just means it has all of the other component pieces that a real piece of ammunition has minus the bullet itself, minus the projectile designed to actually kill you. just because theyre blanks though doesnt mean theyre not dangerous. i mean go back to that diagram showing the blank for ...

Members who talked to "the l.a. times" about it. one crew member telling "the times", there should have been an investigation into what happened, there were no safety meetings. there was no assurance that it wouldnt happen again. all they wanted to do was rush. according to "the l.a. times" tonight, one colleague was so alarmed by the prop gun misfires he sent a text message to the unit production manager saying, quote, weve now had three accidental discharges, this is super unsafe. look, theres...

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 thats 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 theres so many safeguards this should be ...

Remaining union workers to leave for the day. now, typically onset the prop master, the person in charge of making sure guns are handled and used safely, traditionally that itself is a union role but today the local union covering the prop master says no member of their union was onset at the time of the incident. it gets more worrying. nbc news is reporting this evening among the safety concerns raised by the workers who walked off the set yesterday were concerns over the fact that the prop gun...

>> hmm. >> it was unsafe handling and unsafe supervision. >> and the supervision and the labor conditions here are going to dovetail in terms of what the consequences of this act are. >> true. >> we should keep in mind first and foremost right now,now, theres a police investigation into what happened here, and we expect that the santa fe sheriffs office will let us know more than we know now. >> yeah. from what im looking at now, you know, i believe that charges should be filed. to introduce liv...

That you cannot introduce live ammo to it. live ammo simply -- sorry about that. live ammo simply wont go into a prop gun, only blanks will go in. so it is not that they were killed with -- you know, he was killed with a prop gun. he was killed with a real gun, and presumably now what were hearing, you know, actual live ammo . also, when we say going live onset as you said, going live doesnt mean we are using live ammo . it means we are about to do something noisy, that were really doing the rea...

So, yes, they are prop guns of various kinds used in various ways, but these things are so dangerous a lot of productions dont use them at all anymore. the show that was on hbo earlier this year, kate winslet plays the police detective, it is not a spoiler but a lot of guns are fired on that show. kate winslet is a cop and on "mayor of east town" for that whole show they decided every firing of every gun would all be cgi, it was all special effects. they didnt use prop guns loaded with blanks. t...

About blanks and the difference between blanks and bullets, thats the way it is supposed to be explained? >> you nailed it. you could have done, you know, ten times the job that was done on the baldwin set. >> well, let me ask you about this. >> this is -- >> go ahead, please. >> this is the thing that would be a blank round, just a casing and some gun powder. this is live ammo , the thing used to shoot at things. so, you know, hard to get these wrong, which is which. one issue though has been r...

The hospital. when it comes to figure out how it could happen, the questions to the fore are mystifying. how does a prop gun result in a real shooting? in some cases a prop gun is something thats not a gun at all, it has no working parts, just made out of rubber and plastic designed to have a gun shape. but if you are watching a movie or tv show and you see somebody actually fire a weapon, you hear the bang, you see the flash, chances are that is either special effects or that could be a real gu...

60,000 people were due to walk off the job, the studios did offer up an improved deal for those workers. whether it is a good enough deal, those workers are still going to have to decide, still going to have to vote on whether theyre going to accept the new terms. until they do, the threat of that historic strike still looms. but that is turning out to be part of the relevant backdrop for this truly bizarre and terrible story that we all woke up to this morning that nobody in the country seems t...