The gun was they type used many years ago. The cylinder does not swing out as many modern revolvers do. There is a loading gate on the side that swings open after pulling the hammer back a small amount to a notch so the cylinder will be free to rotate. You only see the back side of one round at a time. The cylinder has to be rotated so the back of each round can be seen. The only real way to know what was in the gun would be to push out each round one at a time by the loading gate.
The armorer was supposed to check it and if there were rounds in there, check each round. I read somewhere else that Hollywood puts a ball bearing in a dummy round so you can shake it to see if it is a dummy. That still sounds pretty shady. They really should have non functioning guns on stage. They will foley the sound of the shot in post production anyway. Blanks don't sound like what you hear in movies. I can't think of any circumstance where they need a real gun. They can use Airsoft guns with some toner in them if they need smoke.
Oh, that's interesting. Then it's possible what the AD is supposed to have told the cops could makes sense, ie that he opened it, looked, but didn't rotate the cylinder. Not that it makes sense from that's the right thing to have done, just that it makes sense that he could have opened it and not seen any rounds.
My lawyer sons tell me that most law suits are settled out of court. To my surprise, when I googled it up, they say that 95% are settled out of court.
One of the things that drives me nuts in movies is when someone swings out the cylinder of a DA revolver and spins it and you hear that clicky sound. DAs don't make the clicky noise, at least none of them that I've seen. Only a SA makes the clicky ratchet sound.
I recall in a movie where a racking sound was made with a double barrelled shotgun.
People whose only knowledge of guns is from movies don't know squat.
Googled it up. Not this movie but shows it:
This is why people who are ignorant about firearms have no business handling them. It is as stupid as dropping the magazine out of a SA and assuming it isn't loaded. (Granted some SA have a magazine safety but not most).
Did you see Baldwin's last stupid comment? He said they should have a police officer on each set to insure gun safety. Yeah right. The same folks who don't know the difference between their taser and their Sig or confuse live rounds with blanks? Isn't that the problem we are trying to fix?
Why hasn't anyone suggested a certified NRA safety instructor should be on the set?
That doesn't even include the number settled before the case is actually filed. Sometimes just getting the notice that they are going to file a case brings an offer. I suspect we will see this happen here since the production company doesn't have a leg to stand on.
Most of the soundtrack you hear in movies was done in post production, particularly things like gunshots along with other sound effects and almost any dialog outside.
The fourth season of Goliath is a little strange but when McBride, the Billie Bob Thornton character, refuses to settle and is escorted out by the bailiffs for contempt of court, that is part of his rant. Almost nothing goes to trial anymore.
The series mined the Sackler case. Three firms selling opiods are trying to settle for what is chump change to them with no liability in any future suits. Hopefully Thorton does a better job in the fictional world than the slap on the wrist the Sackler family got.
Why is a gun capable of shooting real bullets on the set? everything else is fake, guns should be too.
That may be the result of all of this. It will seriously hurt the big armorers who have some of the largest collections of functional weapons in the world tho. I often wondered why they needed them except for the gee whiz aspect of introducing exotic weapons to the uninitiated. I have said several times, for all of the pontificating Hollywood elites do about the evils of guns, they have the best product placement for selling the public guns they really have no use for.
Heh. Every time my husband sees an Eotech or (perhaps) other holographic sight on TV, he invariably says, "I made the prototype for that." Which he did. Cheap bastard who ran the company at the outset didn't even see to it that he got one for free when they went into production.
Sadly, the actors so seldom actually use the sight with which their cool-looking gun is provided.
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