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Originally Posted by masraum
Did you miss the previous, long thread on this?
IIRC, there are fakes of many common guns that can be used in movies, but in the case of rare or unusual guns where it doesn't make sense to make a one-off fake gun,a real gun is used with blanks.
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The particular gun in question is a Colt Single Action Army, or an Italian made clone of that gun (Uberti, Cimmaron, Pieta, Pedersoli, and others). I would venture to say one of the most used movie guns of all time, featured in every Western made since, well, since they began making Westerns. From "big screen" to television. If there were ever a gun whose use in movies and television would justify the manufacture of an entirely safe, non-firing example, this would be it.
Beyond that, it would be incredibly simple to modify a functioning example of this design to where it would safely fire the ubiquitous "Five in One" blank, the industry standard for revolvers (these can be "fired" in revolvers and rifles chambered in .38-40, .44-40, .44 Special, .44 Magnum, and .45 Colt, hence their name), while not being able to fire a "live" round.
With multi tens of million dollar Hollywood budgets, this falls into the category of "chump change". They would spend more over the course of production on coffee for the crew than they would on these modifications.
No excuse, just no excuse for having a gun anywhere near the set that is capable of firing "live" ammunition.