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Shouldn't be in that weapon. >> okay. i understand you're at a disadvantage there, all of us are, because we weren't on the set and there are many unanswered questions here. based on your experience, one of the remarkable details here is that two people were injured, one killed and one hospitalized. can you imagine any circumstances with a prop weapon or a blank round where that could happen, where two people could be injured or hit? >> yeah, i mean, there are injuries that do happen from, you know, pop casings from guns when you're working with autopsy t automatic weapons and people can get b...

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...

Protocols on set in terms of how close people can be? these are props. you know, someone who's never spent time on a movie set, i have to say, you think of a prop and think it can't be a real gun, can't harm anybody, and there are also protocols in place in terms of distancing to make sure that nothing goes wrong. can you walk us through what is supposed to happen? >> yeah. the industry-wide labor management has safety bulletin number one for just about every movie set. it's bulletin number one. there's strict guidelines on the processes, what we're required to do to make sure these weapons ar...

>> yeah. >> i believe that you looked into that as well. explain to people how it's possible that shooting a prop weapon could kill one person, could injure another. especially if there is not live ammunition necessarily involved in these prop weapons. >> so when we're dealing with a casing full of gunpowder, gun powder essentially explodes. it turns instantly from a solid to a gas. it creates a tremendous amount of pressure. when it's a blank, simply that pressure is released and some fire and noise with it. that pressure is capable of killing people. john eric hexom was killed by the pressur...