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Least on set, which is usually always the actors. anyone that's -- this weapon's being pointed in the general direction of of and then the first ad, the director sometimes, key grip, dp, depends what set you are working on and what relationship you have but at least two sources of verification. the weapon's cold. and then, at that point in time, the armorer would hold onto the weapon until it's time for the scene to be shot. at that time, you would open it, you would load it with the charges, be it either a live -- when i say a live, i mean a blank round. or if it's not going to discharge, a d...

Flash they want, a little one or a big one, depending on the type of that blank cartridge, how much powder it has in it. the other type of cartridge that you regularly find on a movie set is a dummy round. now, this is a dummy round. now, for all intended purposes, this looks identical to a real round. the only way that you tell the difference is you, number one, shake it. and when you shake it, it has bee bees in inside of it, and they put the bbs inside of it instead of gun powder so you can audibly and physically feel that that is a dummy round. any other time you look at that, it looks lik...

Quarter round, but we rehearsed it all many times. >> what's that like, when you're on the receiving end of a dummy round to the face, what is that like? >> it's weird when you're a zombie because you're wearing contact lenses that make you unable to see properly, you've got fake ears on so it's harder to hear people yelling things at you, but yeah, it's very loud. and you just have to be careful, and trust that everybody has done their jobs diligently, and somewhere along the line here, somebody didn't, unfortunately. >> nichelle i was talking to our reporter, as viewers, we take this for gra...

A criminal investigation apparently is underway. he apparently he alec baldwin was taken and questioned by the police. he was released and not charged. trying to figure out what exactly happened it does remind a lot of people of back in 1993, bruce lee's son brandon was making the movie the crow. and they were using a prop gun and it was the death scene in the movie and he was shot in the back and it was supposed to be just a blank but it turns out there was an actual bullet inside the chamber. ainsley: the family doesn't want guns used at all. steve: that's right. brian: one account says lee ...

There's no propellant and there's no source of ignition at the back. no primer. so you could put this into a gun if you needed to see an actor loading a gun on camera. then you take this out and when you go to film later, you put in the one that has no ammo. what happened in brandon lee's case is the dummy round had been mismanufactured. this had not been crimped properly so the bullet came unseated and remained inside the cylinder. so they put this in. they meant to take this out, but only this came out. and what remains inside was the bullet when they put the blank behind the bullet, now you...