Comments by "Spring Bloom" (@springbloom5940) on "Dr. Todd Grande"
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@kingofthebums
It depends upon the production. Generally the actors are not supposed to load or unload the weapon, but unless theres some reason the Director or safety personnel doesn't want them to, they may check it by checking the chamber, or rotating the cylinder, under supervision. At any rate, the standard procedure, is for the weapon handler to check the weapon in front of the actor and under supervision of the AD. If there is supposed to be any kind of ammunition, be it blank or dummy, the AD may then have the weapon handler unload the weapon and the AD will inspect the ammunition. Then, the weapon handler will load and prepare the gun and give it to the actor. If its a large amount of ammunition, such as loaded magazines for high volume fire, there will be someone on the Direction crew that supervises the magazine loading and keeps it within their sight until its returned to the armory; snd the onsite ammunition inspection will be skipped. Typically, with revolvers of this type, with removable cylinders, theres no need to even have dummy rounds, for any reason but closeups of the gun being loaded. They have preloaded dummy cylinders that just have plugs in the ends of the cylinder that look like a bullet. But, at no time does anyone but the weapons crew and the actor, handle a gun. In short there was no legitimate reason why he couldn't have thumbed open the loading gate, seen something in a chamber and said 'hey, is this supposed to be loaded?'
There were safety failures from end to end, here. But, at the end of that chain, was someone knowingly and wilfully accepting a gun from an individual that was not authorized to distribute a gun. Its like taking a gun from the coffee girl.
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