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| Topic | Alex Baldwin shot and killed someone |
| captpackrat 10/23/21 9:10:13 PM #77: | wolfy42 posted... how the heck does a live round get on set by accident?In the case of Brandon Lee, they first loaded the gun with dummy rounds that were improvised from live cartridges from which the powder was removed. This was for a scene with a closeup of the revolver so it would look like it was loaded with normal ammo. The cartridges still contained their primer, however, and at some point the gun was fired, causing a bullet to move partway down the barrel, something known as a squib load. During the fatal scene, the dummy cartridges were replaced with blanks, which contained primer and powder but no bullet. Because the barrel wasn't checked and cleared, when the blank was fired it propelled the squib out of the barrel with nearly the same force as a live bullet. The bullet struck Lee in the abdomen and he died a few hours later. --- Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, Minutus carborata descendum pantorum. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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