Ever since the tragic shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust last week, people have been asking the same question: How could this happen??
The rules for handling firearms on film sets are incredibly strict. In fact, looking at the past 40 years of cinematic, we could only find two other cases of gun deaths on movie and TV sets, and both were the result of people breaking those rules. (More on those HERE.) So what happened this time?
Sounds like the rules were broken yet again. For instance, there should never be live ammunition on a film set for any reason.
While real weapons are used, they are only ever loaded with blanks or dummy rounds. So there’s no reason to have live rounds around.
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