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Sheriff's office after authorities say the actor discharged a prop firearm on the set of the film "rust" at the bonanza creek ranch. the director joel souza rushed by ambulance to a local hospital with injuries. the film's director of photography, halyna hutchins was pronounced dead after being transported to a hospital. 42-year-old hutchins who posted on instagram from the new mexico location only days ago lived in los angeles with her husband and son. and was credited in the production of dozens of film, tv and video titles during her career. police were called out to the scene on thursday a...

Entire bullet, .44 magnum in that case. >> given how advanced special effects are, why do prop weapons even need to be fired at all? >> they don't. you can take this gun. we can go click, click, click, we can dub in the sound effects and put in the muzzle flash with cgi and many films do that. so unless it was simply a director's preference or actor's preference, there's no reason to have a blank discharging gun on set. >> steve wolf, thank you for your time and expertise. that really helped explain it. i appreciate it. >> thank you for having me today. just because you get a water bill does...

Bonanza creek ranch, a location in new mexico used for filming movies and tv shows. an actor was working on another set. >> they said there was a live gun discharge. fatal accidents involving prop weapons have happened before. the most high profile in 1993. the son of bruce lee died during filming of "the crow" after he was shot by a prop gun. a hollywood weapons expert says since that time the industry has put strict new protocols in place. >> the questions that i would always ask is were the safety guidelines of our industry followed? blanks are not designed to do what the final outcome of...

The weapon. the investigation is open and active. >> it happened at bonanza ranch. actor jeff sneed was working on a different set near by. >> fatal accidents proving prop weapons have happened before. actor brandon lee died during film on "the crow" after she was shot with a shotgun. since that time, the industry put strict new protocols in place. >> a strategic question i would always ask, were the safety guidelines followed. blanks are not designed to do what the final outcome of this was. we need to investigate and find out what went wrong. >> baldwin is not omnivore the star of "rust" but...

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...