Count this as "use it before the 'best used by' date comes up. Before people stop talking about Alec Baldwin and that whole, horrific, tragic, mess on the set of the movie Rust. From Alan Korwin's Gun Laws weekly (or so) mailing.
The side note is that I was a fan of the Agents of Shield series and even remember the episode. I can't imagine a force that's really trained in using guns would do something like this. Unless they're really not a giant X all pointing at each other and we can't tell that from the angle of the photo.
"We never point guns directly at each other in filming" said no one ever who's spent five minutes on an actual production set.
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The Safety Bulletins are designed so that you can point everything everywhere, and never put anyone in any risk whatsoever. And mirabile dictu, that's exactly what happens: Nothing. For literally millions of rounds of pretend-gunfire, not so much as a scratch. Brandon Lee was the last fatality, back when Bill Clinton was a young president.
It starts with "They're not using guns."
In the scene above, they'd either be empty prop guns, or literally rubber/plastic guns. (90% of the weapons you saw anywhere, since ever, are complete non-firing props. Currently, they buy the plastic training Blue Guns, etc., by the ton, and Krylon them flat black. Even in the Normandy scene in Saving Private Ryan, of the over 2000+ weapons present, only 500 were able to even chamber blank loads.)
Hollywood isn't a lie, it's a fantasy. That's. The. Entire. Point.
Anyone who thought TV and movie are reality is simply mentally retarded beyond further discussion.
Hollywood safety rules only fail when you break every single one of them. deliberately. Like Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the exact criminally grossly incompetent PropTart armorer on Rust.
So, what was the total body count on six seasons of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., even with scenes like the one above?
ZERO.
QED
Please, SiG, tell me some sooper-genius is next going to pull out stills from any of three John Wick movies - like where he puts the muzzle against soeone's skull and pulls the trigger! - for their next "A-Ha! J'accuse! moment of internet idiocy.
The only people who have proven themselves bigger idiot jackasses on this incident, and guns in general, than Hollywood, is the universe of internet keyboard commando "gun guys".
It's scandalous, but based on years behind a gun counter, completely predictable.
The "gun" people still swinging to try and score points on this thing remind me of no one so much as Captain Ahab.
It never ends well for him.
Well if those were FBI agents in that film, why not? Would the world not be better off???
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