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Why is it necessary to fire anything in an acting scene with a gun?

Asked by JLeslie (65417points) October 24th, 2021 from iPhone

I’m sure most of you have heard about the recent tragedy where actor Alec Baldwin fired a gun that was supposed to have blanks, but didn’t, and wound up killing one person and harming another on set.

There are not supposed to be any real bullets at all on a film set, plus many other precautions so this never happens.

Why is it even necessary at all to have any bullets? Can’t they just edit in the sound of a gun firing during editing? Just have all fake guns that have no space for bullets.

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