{"id":34141,"date":"2021-10-22T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=34141"},"modified":"2021-10-22T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:03:51","slug":"hollywood-uses-many-fake-things-why-not-fake-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/22\/hollywood-uses-many-fake-things-why-not-fake-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood uses many fake things, why not fake guns?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apropos this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Baldwin was on set filming for the upcoming Western movie \u201cRust\u201d at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico Thursday when the prop gun he was handling misfired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. Souza remains in the hospital.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether the gun contained blanks or what was discharged.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is tragic, though not the world’s most important problem. But it happens now and then. I’d worry about the use of guns with blanks in any situation, and I think accidents like this have happened outside the context of filming a Hollywood movie.<\/p>\n

Here’s the solution: Invent a series of firearms that look like the various models one would use in films or on stage, but that don’t have the capacity of shooting bullets of any kind, including blanks, but that look like they are shooting bullets. This is not beyond the capacity of our modern day technology. Sure, it would be expensive, but so is every other single thing used in making movies.<\/p>\n

Then, disallow actual firearms of any kind on any stage or set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apropos this: Baldwin was on set filming for the upcoming Western movie \u201cRust\u201d at the Bonanza Creek Ranch in New Mexico Thursday when the prop gun he was handling misfired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza. Souza remains in the hospital. It\u2019s unclear whether the gun contained blanks or what was discharged. … Continue reading Hollywood uses many fake things, why not fake guns?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5033],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/R7510-FBI-Guns-Thompson-Submachine-Gun-6-2.jpg?fit=415%2C470&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-8SF","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34142,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34141\/revisions\/34142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}