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The other thing in this particular case that i find interesting, and people haven't talked about it, at least in the coverage i've seen, is use of the term "cold gun." generally speaking when you're talking about a cold set versus a hot set, a cold set is a set where nothing is really hooked up, there's no explosions that are hooked on to any sort of live energy source. a hot set is a case where somebody says it's a hot set, and whatever you do you're told by those words, don't go into this set, because for whatever reason we don't want you going in there, it's dangerous or it's part of contin...

Killed has leia luchins and struck director joel souza in the shoulder, who was standing behind her. authorities are combing through hundreds of pieces of evidence including three guns and 500 rounds of ammunition, real and blank bullets. investigators interviewed baldwin and the two people who handled the gun before giving it the actor/producer. halls said he did not check each round loaded in the weapon before yelling "cold gun" mean it was safe. >> emilie a second shutdown because of vaccination rules. >> reporter: weeks after a san francisco location was closed for defying local health man...

Investigation. that could take weeks to unfold, stephanie. >> clay we'll go to the bullets in a second. but first, walk us through the procedure, what is the procedure supposed to be for handling a gun, p even if there's only blanks on set? >> the procedure is long established safety protocols that have been in effect for decades in the film industry. and it's very simple. the armorer is the ultimate responsibility for the weapons on the set. every time they pick up a weapon, they ensure it's cold. if it has to go to the set, they walk to the first ad, the safety officer on the set, they inspe...

And load it into the firearm once the first ad told us that we were ready to do that. >> assistant director. >> correct. >> so now, we were shooting with you the other day as i said and you emphasized the only two terms that people should be hearing are hot gun and cold gun. what do each of those terms mean? >> so in the motion -- motion-picture industry, we have our own language, if you will. and two of those terms are cold gun and hot gun. a cold gun means that the gun is empty. it cannot fire. there might be dummies in it. but it cannot go bang. a hot gun means that it is ready to fire with...

You would use it because you sometimes want a tight shot of a bullet being loaded into a gun, right? >> sure. again, this is what we call a dummy cartridge in the industry. we manufacture those here at iss ourselves and we put a bb inside of the shell case. so you can actually rattle it by your ear and hear it and when we would be loading that into a gun onset in front of an actor, we would tell them, hey, we are loading in these rounds so that you can see that the gun's loaded on camera. but each one is a dummy and we would rattle it next to the actor's ear and then with their understanding t...