CNN New Day With John Berman and Brianna Keilar October 22, 2021 12:44:00
Extreme caution with any kind of weapons, whether they be prop guns, blank guns, anything in between. typically we will do a safety brief with the cast and crew. we'll introduce the weapon to the cast and crew, we'll let them examine it, we'll explain the safety precautions that go with each type of prop weapon. in this case it was a blank firing weapon, and with that there are inherent risks. we saw with the brandon lee shooting several years ago, that prop weapons do have a dangerous factor to them. even though they're a lot safer than using a live firearm on set. typical prop load will be a...