Just seems to me (Ok yeah, no kidding Sherlock) that the stage weapons should be under constant security of the armorer and locked up in a case by this person until ready for use. NO handing it to anyone else other than the actor to use it and they get it back after the scene to be re-secured. Guns described as laying out ‘on a cart’ outside the set? If under the constant eye of the armorer ok. Leave to take a piss? Lock them in the case or box until ya return. Similar to a safety law I’m familiar with called “Control of Hazardous Energy” nickname Lockout/Tagout. As I posted earlier – has anyone read yet just where da eff this armorer was? Her twitter/facebook links have been closed as has the assistant director’s, the guy that gave Baldwin the gun. No surprise. A cheap flick being made and seems likely cheap-ness all around including safety protocols.
Gun safety
- Thread starter 440 Charger
- Start date
69 MBee
Well-Known Member
"how many **** ups could make this remotely possible?
Possibly, it was intentional. Maybe there are no coincidences. If the local law officials are above board the truth will come out. There are no bones about it, he did shoot and kill her. The ONLY question is, can they prove it was intentional.
Bottom line, you can't hit what you don't point the gun at, cock and pull the trigger. Most that are around guns from an early age know how to carry and where to keep the business end trained at all times.
Only time this kind of poor etiquette and gun safety gets a pass is bird huntin' with ole Dick Cheney and now actin' with Alec "Jerry Lee" Baldwin.
Possibly, it was intentional. Maybe there are no coincidences. If the local law officials are above board the truth will come out. There are no bones about it, he did shoot and kill her. The ONLY question is, can they prove it was intentional.
Bottom line, you can't hit what you don't point the gun at, cock and pull the trigger. Most that are around guns from an early age know how to carry and where to keep the business end trained at all times.
Only time this kind of poor etiquette and gun safety gets a pass is bird huntin' with ole Dick Cheney and now actin' with Alec "Jerry Lee" Baldwin.
joe smith
Well-Known Member
Lets go Brandon
- Local time
- 8:53 PM
- Joined
- Aug 5, 2011
- Messages
- 3,803
- Reaction score
- 5,617
- Location
- Lisle, HELLinois!
Would Brandon Lee be alive today if The Crow had been filming in unionized New York or California rather than in North Carolina, a nonunion, right-to-work state? Two weeks after the 28-year-old star was shot and killed on the set, apparently by an improperly loaded gun, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), Hollywood’s powerful crafts union, is raising questions about the safety of moviemaking in the Tarheel State.
While on-set accidents happen everywhere, IATSE insists filmmaking at the Carolco Studios in Wilmington, N.C., is particularly perilous. The union is pointing to the multiple mishaps bedeviling the Crow set prior to Lee’s death as an indictment of the state’s work rules, which allow productions to hire less costly, nonunion employees. The state’s inexpensive workforce has helped to make North Carolina one of the top five locations for moviemaking in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1992, 190 features were shot there (including Bull Durham). But IATSE claims that such growth has a price. In addition to The Crow, the union is also leveling charges against Twentieth Century Fox’s The Last of the Mohicans, which was shot near Asheville, N.C., in 1991.
While on-set accidents happen everywhere, IATSE insists filmmaking at the Carolco Studios in Wilmington, N.C., is particularly perilous. The union is pointing to the multiple mishaps bedeviling the Crow set prior to Lee’s death as an indictment of the state’s work rules, which allow productions to hire less costly, nonunion employees. The state’s inexpensive workforce has helped to make North Carolina one of the top five locations for moviemaking in the U.S. Between 1980 and 1992, 190 features were shot there (including Bull Durham). But IATSE claims that such growth has a price. In addition to The Crow, the union is also leveling charges against Twentieth Century Fox’s The Last of the Mohicans, which was shot near Asheville, N.C., in 1991.
Similar threads
