Loose Nut

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You mean an incompetent prop supplier.

As somebody who, for many years, was a firearms safety instructor, your point is NOT PERTINENT. It is the absolute responsibility of the person handling the gun to first point it in a safe direction, no matter who has handled it before. The next step is to see if it is loaded while it is pointed in that safe direction. Ordinarily, one never points any gun at anything or anyone that should not be shot but on the set of a Movie I guess there are exception, but only if the person handling the gun has followed the first two steps.

And the finger never goes onto the trigger until one is ready to shoot. And it is also important to analyze the backstop for possible collateral damage.

And prop handlers shouldn't declare a loaded gun cold.

While that is certainly true, it is NOT PERTINENT!

As a firearms safety instructor, I was once called on to teach a muzzle loader class on short notice because the regular instructor was out sick. Somebody from his family dropped off his muzzle loader gear where I was conducting the class, declare that the gun was empty then left. During the class I did exactly what I was trained to do, and exactly what I taught to my students.

I pointed the gun in a safe direction immediately after picking it up, and checked to see if it was loaded. I could tell by the amount of ramrod sticking out that it was indeed loaded. I took the class to the range, pointed the gun downrange and pulled the trigger. The “Unloaded” gun went off! I knew that it is EACH gun handler’s responsibility to handle the gun ALWAYS as if it was loaded. And in this case, I proved why that needs to be the case.