About that shooting on the "Rust" movie set

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Having been on few movie and television sets as an "extra" actor, this shooting is a shock to me. It has happened before though. The last time it happened was in 1993, when Brandon Lee (son of Bruce Lee), was fatally wounded on the set of "The Crow." The thing is, everything seems so regimented and overmatched on those sets. You'd think that the person putting the gun in place to be used would have checked what kind of rounds it was loaded with. The story I read referred to an "armorer" who would be responsible for loading the gun with the blanks called for in a scene like that. It almost makes me imagine a movie where there is some grudge to settle and the gun to be used is fine, loaded properly, then somehow gets messed with by the grudge holder and results in a death. Perhaps the one who dies in this case would be the intended one or the real target is the person who fires the shot. His or her career as an actor could well be over after such a terrible killing.