guns – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:14:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 On Alec Baldwin’s Shooting https://noise.getoto.net/2023/01/26/on-alec-baldwins-shooting/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 12:08:54 +0000 https://www.schneier.com/?p=66690 We recently learned that Alec Baldwin is being charged with involuntary manslaughter for his accidental shooting on a movie set. I don’t know the details of the case, nor the intricacies of the law, but I have a question about movie props.

Why was an actual gun used on the set? And why were actual bullets used on the set? Why wasn’t it a fake gun: plastic, or metal without a working barrel? Why does it have to fire blanks? Why can’t everyone just pretend, and let someone add the bang and the muzzle flash in post-production?

Movies are filled with fakery. The ...

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