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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
So... a multi-billion dollar per year industry. Spends an ungodly amount of money on sets, props, special affects, and pays its actors tens of millions of dollars.
Why, on God's green earth, have they not yet arrived upon a standardized process for rendering all guns used in filming non-functional? From an engineering/technical point of view, this is an exceedingly cheap and simple problem to solve.
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There are times hard rubber guns are used (stunts) and Airsoft guns (wide shots) and electric guns (that produce a muzzle flash). Sometimes actors prefer a blank firing weapon for reality or "method acting" reasons.
Using blank firing guns are safe when you have a competent Armorer on set whenever firearms are used and follow the hard and steadfast rule that LIVE AMMUNITION SHOULD NEVER BE BROUGHT ONTO A STUDIO LOT OR LOCATION.
Most prop weapons are unable to fire live ammo. Unfortunately in the "Rust" case they chose to use a real weapon as a prop. That was their first mistake.