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Of my own repercussion. for them to say this is for personal gain, it absolutely isn't. i don't want to be in front of cameras. my whole career is spent behind them. >> what was your biggest concern that made you leave the job? >> well, it started out with all these red flags throughout the entire course of the production. it started with a lack of safety meetings. it started with inexperienced key personnel. you know, a lot of people being brought in from out of town, you know. it was one red flag after another red flag until finally, you know, there was the negligent discharges that happened...

Be used. i know you beg to differ? >> we've done hundreds of thousanding us of movies with firearms with no incidents whatever. we have a long history of safety. and our safety checks have worked. when all of these people violated all of these safety rules, that was the problem. it has nothing to do with the gun. it's the people. if we ban real firearms from film productions, one of the problems with knee jerk reactions like this is all it's going to do is take the really experienced skilled people, the armorers, firearm safety coordinators, whatever. and you're going to now reduce it to a pro...

>> so we have senator klobuchar on after you. she has a bill out there. it's very much controlled looking at this through an a anti-law perspective. is that key? >> i think that's key, but the big thing today is it's hard for starters to compete. it would still be hard to compete with the mothership or the whatsapp. there is still market dominance in their spaces you still can't compete. what you need to do is prevent companies like facebook from operating ad marketplaces at the same time they operate networks. you have to separate the components as well as the divisions from each other. but t...

>> jesse: deadlines reporting there had been a recent accidental discharge of the prop gun on the set, and the "l.a. times" reporting the crew members walked off the set just hours before the shooting. one crew member was reportedly complaining about gun safety. jim clemente's a hollywood technical consultant and former fbi special agent and he joins us now. tim, the legitimate movie set with safety protocols when you're dealing with a prop gun, what would go into something like using a gun during the filming? >> the first thing, jesse, is the safety rules. if oracle roles of firearm safety yo...

Also, when we say going live on set, as you said, going live doesn't mean that we are using live ammo, it means that we are about to do something noisy, we are doing the real thing. we are going live, we are gonna blow up the, carver gonna load the gun with the blanks. it doesn't mean that we are putting real ammunition and bullets into guns that -- and handling them onset. >> steve, because of all of the safety protocols that are being used, including, as you just described, making sure that you are using a realistic looking weapon that is operable but it cannot be loaded with live ammunition...