MSNBC Katy Tur Reports October 22, 2021 18:08:00
Happened before. back in 1993, brandon lee, son of martial arts legend bruce lee, was killed after a bullet was left in a prop gun on the set of the movie "the crow." prop guns are supposed to work by firing blanks, gunpowder charges that produce the flash and the bang, not a hard projectile, but they can still be dangerous if the paper or plastic ejected from the barrel is fired at a close range. that is what happened on a tv show set back in 1984, when actor john eric hexum fired a blank at his head at such close range that the wadding in the prop gun hit him with such force, it killed him. ...