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Mourning one of their rising stars and infuriated this could happen on set. and it comes just days after a nationwide strike was averted after a tentative deal between producers and set workers that included an upgrading of safety standards. this isn't the first time someone�*s been fatally shot during filming. nearly 20 years ago, brandon lee died after being shot by a prop gun on the set of the crow. now people are demanding to know how it could have happened again. there are instances when you do shoot a blank that you can be injured. often, what comes out of the muzzle after you've disch...

So um, as far as the minimum-safety distance goes, it's -- it's not advised. it's mandated. part of the protocols mandate that there's a minimum 20-foot safety distance between the muzzle and anything that could be harmed by any potential hazards due to the blank -- >> wow. >> there is a lot of different ways that you can film a scene. you can do it with long lenses where the camera is actually much further away than 20 feet. if you, for whatever reason, had to be within 20 feet, you could put up a physical barrier. in other words, a sheet that can actually separate the muzzle from anything th...

That propels hot gas, sustaining gas, burning powderous of the muzzle. and we want to make sure there's nobody downrange from that muzzle. on other extreme there is the use sometimes of a use of a real firearm that have been converted in some cases to fire blank rounds. so they will cycle a blank round. not having the actual projectile in the cartridge, you don't get the cycling. but those guns don't require the cycling, like a revolver, that would be in some cases a real firearm. that brings really to the forefront, obviously, there's never really any real ammunition capable of tiger a projec...

The incident has rocked hollywood, with many of those in the film will destroy now morning one of the rising stars and infuriated this could happen on set. it comes just days after a nationwide strike was averted after a tentative deal between producers and site workers that included an upgrading of safety standards. this is not the first time someone has been fatally shot during filming. nearly 20 years ago, brandon lee died after being shot by a prop gun on the set of the crawl. now people are demanding to know how it could have happened again —— the crow. it could have happened again --...

It could have happened again. there are instances when you do shoot a blank, you can be injured. often, what comes out of the muzzle when you discharge the weapon with blank ammunition, sometimes a cotton wad, and that coming out at a very high velocity to an individual really close by can cause significant damage, and in some cases can cause death. an investigation into what happened here is still in its early stages. what we do know is something went terribly, tragically wrong. sophie long, bbc news, hollywood. what a tragic incident. what's the reaction from hollywood so far? well, hollywoo...