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Why? >> well, it's not tricky. it is to the uninitiated or the inexperienced. now, she is 24 years old. by law in the united states, you have to be at least 21 years old to handle firearms. why would someone hire somebody like this and make them a, quote, unquote, armorer when it takes years to become an armorer. you can become a gun handler, but that isn't what she was doing. she wasn't focused, she wasn't paying attention, and she didn't load the weapon. >> this isn't about how she loaded blanks, it's that they had live ammo on set, right? >> yeah, that's my understanding. i'm still waiting ...

A quote/unquote armorer when it takes years to be an armorer. you can be a gun handler. but that's wasn't what she was doing. she wasn't focused and didn't know the weapon. >> this isn't how she loaded blanks. it's that they had live ammo on set, right? >> yeah. that's my understanding. i still am -- because we're no longer dealing with a movie set, we're dealing with a crime scene, i think they're investigating for negligent homicide as soon as they can lay that off, which there seems to be an abundance of people involved in this, there's just no way that the first a.d. should have had any ac...

In there. the first a.d. would say, load live, load six. we would hand it to the actor and say, the weapon is hot, fire it in the hole, five or six shots, whatever it might be. the actor should be standing right there and watching this procedure, which is what i insist upon on my shows, and also, the gun handler is inspecting each round visually as he's putting them into the weapon. so what's happening here is, you're getting it inspected multiple times by multiple people. and there's no reason that this should have happened. there's just no reason for it. >> some questions just so we can take...

And she sort of stayed. but she -- she -- she was obviously upset and in tears as we've been reported by the situation before this fatal incident happened. >> just so awful for her family and everybody involved. appreciate it. thank you. joining us now is larry, who is 59 film and tv series to his fame name, gun handler and armor. also with us, cnn legal analyst, laura coates. um, larry, i appreciate your time tonight. is this -- this is obviously still an ongoing investigation. there are limited details we have. just in layman 's terms, can yo though walk us through how prop guns are usually ...

We would hand it to the actor and say, the weapon is hot, fire it in the hole, five or six shots, whatever it might be. the actor should be standing right there and watching this procedure, which is what i insist upon on my shows, and also, the gun handler is inspecting each round visually as he's putting them into the weapon. so what's happening here is, you're getting it inspected multiple times by multiple people. and there's no reason that this should have happened. there's just no reason for it. >> some questions just so we can take one more step here. so have you ever had, in your experi...