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Wouldn't carry my weapon onset. i checked it in a locked container. mine has live ammunition, a real gun i use to protect myself. i've been onsets where live ammunition is prohibited to avoid just this kind of thing that happened. i'm like you. i can't think of any reason why a live round of ammunition would ever be on a set where there were guns. >> the fact that the da is saying this shouldn't be referred to as a prop gun, this was a live gun. what is it typically like on a set? is there a, quote, unquote, prop gun? for those of us not in the industry, this would be something that looks exac...

Depends on what set you're working on and what relationship you have but at least two sources of verification the weapon is cold and at that point in time, the armorer would hold onto the weapon until it's time for the scene to be shot. at that time you open it, load it with the charges, be it either a live -- when i say live, i mean a blank round or if it's not going to discharge, a dummy round and at that point in time, right before the camera rolls, sound, you walk over there and hand off the weapon to the actor and then call hot weapon onset, which is repeated on the radio. >> but they sai...