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How is it possible that 28 years after the accident that killed Bruce Lee's son Brandon Lee on the set of a movie, you can still be killed by a blank gun? Police ballistics reports on what happened on the set of

Rust

- in which Alec Baldwin fired a few shots, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding film director Joel Souza - will clarify everything, but what are the hypotheses? of what happened.



The weapons used in movie sets can be basically of two types

: toy pistols, or real pistols loaded with small explosive charges that simply emit a very scenic glow but obviously do not fire a bullet.



Why aren't toy guns always used?

Because they just don't look real, they are lighter and handle differently so closer shots would show a difference. That is why real weapons are used, which a specialized technician, who must always be present on the set, loads not with bullets but with small charges capable of making a flare.

In 1993, when Lee died (the gun was loaded with these small charges but remained in the barrel, amazingly, a real bullet that was fired), digital special effects technology was primitive, but now there are no excuses. T

écnicamente be possible always use unloaded firearms

, not to make any "physical" glow but to sum it

all digitally in postproduction.



However, why even properly loaded blanks can kill?

In 1984, actor

Jon-Erik Hexum

was playing with a backup pistol, a Magnum 44, during his boring breaks on set.

The weapon had been, apparently today due to criminal negligence, neglected.

Hexum thought the blank cartridges inside were harmless, held the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger playfully, as if playing "Russian roulette."

The charge, pushed by the gas and designed to make a flare of about 20 cm, broke the temporal bone that ended up inside the brain, killing it.

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