So, film-makers, wanna give input????

Doc Bernard

Doc Bernard

Indie Arms Member
I am working on a proposal for a local news station here in So Cal. The proposal is about film safety when using prop weapons, and how it should occur. And highlighting scenarios where it went wrong. I have support from armorers, throughout North America, but I want to give a film-maker's POV. PM me quotes, how, and if you are qouted.

I am going to downplay Indie-Arms on this, in the interest of safety and focus on the issue.
 
Also, success stories. Not how you "got away with something". How you did something that was successful and legal. LOL, here I am talking a bunch of guerillas. Focus on safety.
 
hmmmmm. hadn't thought about that angle. But very interesting.............and I can put the full power of Indie-arms behind it. Not just someone saying "Hey, I know guns" But the full monty of what is offered, put in an instructional venue.

Thanks Ullanta!
 
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Hey Doc, one story that sticks with me is regarding Jon-Erik Hexum...

On October 12, 1984, between filming scenes on the set of Cover Up, Hexum was critically wounded after he placed a .44 Magnum prop gun loaded with blanks to his temple and pulled the trigger. The accident happened during the filming of a scene where Hexum’s character (Mac Harper) was supposed to unload a handgun and replace the bullets with blanks—as the script required. The shooting was, however, delayed due to a technical difficulty and Hexum fell asleep on the set. Hexum awoke approximately fifteen minutes later and, realizing the scene was still not ready to be shot, began playing with the gun. Police later reported that Hexum had been playing Russian Roulette, having loaded three empty cartridges and two blanks into the cylinder. He eventually placed the gun to his head and, after saying, "Let's see if I've got one for me!" pulled the trigger.

Hexum was apparently not aware that blanks use paper or plastic wadding to seal gun powder into the shell, and that this wadding is propelled from the barrel of the gun with enough force to cause severe injury or death if the weapon is fired within a few inches of the body, especially if pointed at a particularly vulnerable spot, such as the temple or the eye. Although the paper wadding in the blank that Hexum discharged did not penetrate his skull, the wad struck him in the temple with enough blunt force trauma to shatter a quarter-sized piece of his skull and propel the pieces into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Erik_Hexum
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