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Sizes. there are rubber stunt versions that you might use with a performer falling off a roof or running down the street or dropping the prop. that would be made of rubber. then we get up to the type of prop guns that are manufactured to only shoot blanks. they were never real guns. we call them nonguns. they are still dangerous because a blank is a charge of powder that propels hot gas, burning gas, burning powder out of the muzzle and we want to make sure that nobody is ever right down range from that muzzle. on another extreme, there is sometimes the use of a real firearm that have been con...

Beginning of how does this work. we have a weapons expert who has worked on many films. and he'll take us through what the possibilities are here. he is firearm trainer bill davis. thank you for taking this opportunity, sir. >> you're welcome, chris, thank you. >> so bill, literally, assume the people you're talking to, starting with me, know nothing, and this sounds completely wild, that how does a movie gun hurt somebody? what are the possibilities in your mind about what could have gone wrong here? >> well, first of all, i'm hearing a lot on the news, different news outlets, that we're talk...

>> do we know for sure what kind of projectile was in that specific gun. i have to say i was shocked to hear any sort of projectile that could injure someone would even be used on a set in a prop gun. >> the very specific rules is that there is to be no live ammunition on a set. these three prop guns were actually outside the structure in which the fatal shooting happened of helena hutchinson. there was a gun given to him, he was told it was a cold gun. there could have been various things that happened. i'll give you an example. in the case of brandon lee, there was some live -- there was liv...

About them trying to understand the protocols involved for preparation of the prop guns, the movie guns. again, there are two different incidents here of asking for any of the tape that captured any of the event. any photos of the structure that this happened inside of. and then the main ask is for -- point four of the six-point ask is, the firearm, firearms, components, documentation that establishes ownership, ammunition, that's really the key thing, used or unused, whether it be live ammunition or prop ammunition, projectiles, casings, whether spent or unspent. now, a big part of our