To my annoyance, Guillermo Del Toro has gone on record joining the “don’t use real guns on movie sets” crowd…except that he’s gone the extra mile and claimed he already has not been using them for years now:
https://www.indiewire.com/2022/01/gu..._8LjYbGa6iOSiU
This sounds like BS to me. Most of the guns in “Pacific Rim,” for example, appear to be real ones.