https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1453969595560198145
500 rounds of ammo just lying around for off hours recreational use.
They really had to dig into the cocaine and hookers budget to afford that much play ammo.
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https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1453969595560198145
500 rounds of ammo just lying around for off hours recreational use.
They really had to dig into the cocaine and hookers budget to afford that much play ammo.
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It was a “ low budget” film, only 5 or 6 million worth. Not Dune, hardly, but a hell of a lot more than a small business would cost to set up. Cheap for somebody’s Hollywood ego trip, plenty for .45 Colt rounds even if they couldn’t “afford” decent housing for the crew. Or a competent armorer.
Speaking of Colt, were they using SA revolvers? One thing that I haven’t seen discussed much is the contradiction between an “accidental discharge” and the two actions needed to fire an SA gun.
They were SA. Some sort of Italian reproductions of period arms.
Might’ve gotten into the coke budget, but the wannabe hookers,,,,, I mean actors/actresses do the suckin’ & fu**in’ for free.
What I want to know is – how hard is it to take the striker (firing pin for you boomers) out of your “prop gun”?
This guy killed someone at a minimum out of utter carelessness (negligent homicide) or made a stupid attempt at a making an otherwise bogus point (i.e. “guns are bad, mmmmmmmkay?”).
Either way, the guy should sit and think about that in the clink for a little bit, IMHO. I’d say the same about me if I did something that stupid…
The number of “rounds” has not been delineated between live, blank, etc.
So I’d hold off a bit.
500 rounds of .45LC blanks go for $600.
https://www.westernstageprops.com/44-and-45-Caliber-Ammo-s/1896.htm
For reference, that’s the cost of one cameraman for ½ a day, and exactly 0.01% of the budget on a $6M dollar movie.
IOW, they spent more on craft service coffee and snacks for the week.
The cost of a NIB Glock.
Reality: Still a thing in Hollywood.
And in a shocking development, you might notice that a prop company, even one in Las Vegas, doesn’t sell anything but blanks. No live ammo whatsoever.
Hmm.
Almost like there never should have been any real guns or live ammo on that entire set of Rust.
How curious.
I wonder who it was who broke those rules?
Was that 500 rounds of live ammunition or 500 rounds total, including blanks and dummies?
I’m thinking a Western with traditional shootouts and allowance for multiple takes of the shootouts might burn through a couple of hundred blanks, and having plenty of spare blanks in the remote location would make sense.
Having a non-zero number of live rounds that fit the guns used in the performance, on the other hand….
What I had read was 500 rounds total.
But even if just one of them was a live round (as opposed to a blank), there was a real problem.
The armorer — the person directly and explicitly responsible for firearms, ammo, and firearms safety — is now claiming she had no idea there were live rounds and has no idea where they came from.
She also claims that she checked the gun in question — in the morning, before the lunch break.