Firing blanks from a real gun

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by Ace Oliveira

And that gentlemen, is why you never screw around with guns on set without armourer supervision.

In America, you aren't necessarily obligated to have an armorer on-set unless you have NFA weapons (in countries with stricter gun laws, this is a different story). Propmasters and their assistants handle guns on-set all the time. Or at least, they used to (this is apparently changing).

It's just that in the case of "The Crow", the particular property assistant who handled the gun that killed Lee while the armorer was off-set happened to be very inexperienced.