New article about Hollywood and Guns and we're mentioned

[funkychinaman]

That part about Mark Wahlberg and Danny Trejo not being able to use real guns due to being felons can't be true, can it? Both have extensive pages here, and they all can't be fake or non-guns.

[commando552]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

That part about Mark Wahlberg and Danny Trejo not being able to use real guns due to being felons can't be true, can it? Both have extensive pages here, and they all can't be fake or non-guns.

I may be wrong as I am just repeating what I have heard rather than actually knowing it, but supposedly Mark Wahlberg is not technically a felon as his prison sentence was not long enough to class him as one by Massachusetts law.

[Spartan198]

It's funny how they imply the danger of firing blank-adapted guns at too close a range comes from casings being ejected.

[Excalibur]

Originally Posted by Spartan198

It's funny how they imply the danger of firing blank-adapted guns at too close a range comes from casings being ejected.

They did mention Brandon Lee's death



Wahlberg has shot real guns during training for Lone Survivor. The Behind the Scenes pretty much show us all the guns he's trained with.

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

They did mention Brandon Lee's death

Good for them. Still, though, any danger posed by the ejection of casings is minimal at most.

[commando552]

Originally Posted by Spartan198

Good for them. Still, though, any danger posed by the ejection of casings is minimal at most.

There is still a danger though, or maybe it is just more of an inconvenience. If you ever watch BTS footage of gunfights being filmed (the gunfight from Heat springs to mind) you will quite often see the cameramen wearing face shields for this exact reason, or even having big Lexan shields built around the camers or held by extra crew members.

In the TV series Stargate SG1 the main weapon they used was originally MP5s, but they switched to P90s. Although I doubt that it was the inciting reason (more likely aesthetics and "cool" factor) if you watch/listen to the behind the scenes stuff or commentaries the producers and actors say that the fact that the P90 ejects downwards was a massive bonus. In fact, there were scenes that they were only able to shoot in a particular way because of this aspect of the weapon (e.g. several characters firing there guns in a narrow hallway in both directions).

[Spartan198]

Originally Posted by commando552

There is still a danger though, or maybe it is just more of an inconvenience. If you ever watch BTS footage of gunfights being filmed (the gunfight from Heat springs to mind) you will quite often see the cameramen wearing face shields for this exact reason, or even having big Lexan shields built around the camers or held by extra crew members.

In the TV series Stargate SG1 the main weapon they used was originally MP5s, but they switched to P90s. Although I doubt that it was the inciting reason (more likely aesthetics and "cool" factor) if you watch/listen to the behind the scenes stuff or commentaries the producers and actors say that the fact that the P90 ejects downwards was a massive bonus. In fact, there were scenes that they were only able to shoot in a particular way because of this aspect of the weapon (e.g. several characters firing there guns in a narrow hallway in both directions).

I'm not saying there's no danger, but to my knowledge no one has ever died because an empty casing bounced off their face.

[MT2008]

Interesting read, though clearly filled with errors that one would expect from an author who knows nothing about firearms (the 1911 was NOT originally a Taurus pistol; they're just one of many makers).

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

That part about Mark Wahlberg and Danny Trejo not being able to use real guns due to being felons can't be true, can it? Both have extensive pages here, and they all can't be fake or non-guns.

Definitely not (i.e. "Heat", "Replacement Killers" for Danny Trejo), though I am not sure what exemptions exist. Hopefully, someone who has AEAA membership can comment on this.

[Excalibur]

Maybe it's the fact that they are "movie stars" and no one has asked made them the exception.

[Jcordell]

Well there were some mistakes, but the big thing is that IMFDB got some great press.