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Accidents and/or deaths on set don't get covered unless it's a name actor in involved, and even then for legal reasons and more it may simply not be brought up right away. We're just assuming things go right often on productions when it comes to accidents. Aside from the obvious ones already mentioned here in this thread, how many more can the average Joe who doesn't read about such stuff, really know about?
Further more, not every production requires prop gun, and even more further -- not every proper gun is even used to firing; it may simply be there to be held, be in a Pawn Shop, be in a bad guy's personal arsenal, and be for sale some some nefarious evil doer. It can't be the measure to say productions often go right if a prop gun.
To add fuel to the Baldwin fire, I heard (I'm not even going to bother looking this up, so take it for what it's worth) the prop guy was a newbie and some of the production staff had walked for safety concerns on set.
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Really? Conspiracy theories? Jeez. The person assigned to make sure the gun was safe before Baldwin fired it was careless. Baldwin fired during a rehearsal and one person was killed. Why dig around for something sinister when it was most probably just a tragic accident?
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Whatever else, how about if we don't use this thread as a platform for tasteless jokes. Somebody died.
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I long for the day that I will read a news item that is not accompanied by conspiracy theories or internet sleuthing.
Agreed. I mean, sure, this sounds like a perfect template for a Columbo episode, (movie star murders camera operative while making it look like an accident), but there is so far no reason to assume this was anything but a horrible accident on a film set that we all seem to agree on should not have happened.
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There's absolutely no reason to have a working gun in a film.
Though there are often completely real guns (and other weapons, like swords etc) on film sets. That's actually not that unusual. In fact, that's the reason there are so many precautions because these things can actually shoot. And you can't really solve this easily with "prop guns", as a real looking prop revolver will be basically a "real" revolver. Sure, there are precautions like gas nozzles in the barrel etc. that should prevent debris (or live bullets) from flying out, but lots of movie guns are basically more or less "real". Sometimes even live ammunition is shot on film sets, though usually not in scenes involving acting/actors.
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