Comments by "Reecom98" (@reecom9884) on "Attorney for 'Rust' armorer speaks about on-set shooting l GMA" video.

  1. The use of the “Dummy Round” in the movies is show the gun when facing the camera has bullets in the six chambers of the revolver because of the lead colored bullet head that the camera sees. The Dummy Round doesn’t contain powder or primer and has a colored mark on the back end not seen by the camera that indicates that it is a Dummy Round. It seems that the Armorer didn’t color mark the back of the bullet. The Armorer should have shaken the bullet to confirm that there was no powder in the shell before loading the gun.
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  2.  @putinscat1208  This was an old western movie. He had to be using a single shot revolver which requires you to manually cock the hammer back before pulling trigger. So he must have been also practicing quick draw and firing the revolver. If this was just practice and they weren’t filming, why even load the revolver with dummy rounds? This shows that the movie company was totally incompetent and had no idea of weapon safety.
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  3.  @putinscat1208  The Dummy Round was just a movie prop for the camera to film, they could have bought 3D printed realistic plastic .45 Cal bullets on the internet and painted the shells to look real for the camera. You see the Cosplayers all the time walking around at conventions wearing bandoliers with fake bullets. The light weight of the bullet would easily tell you that the bullet wasn’t real. The audience couldn’t tell by the camera angle that it wasn’t real.
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  4.  @putinscat1208  Instead of test firing the weapon into the air, you should use a bullet clearing station for safety. It‘s required by the military and police to ensure that your weapon discharge is safe whenever you pull the trigger of your weapon outside of a firing range.
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  5.  @briang.7206  Yes, you need to clearly mark the dummy rounds to identify it quickly without error when checking. They often use a paint mark, drill a small hole in the case, or dent the case since the camera angle only films from the front and not the back of the revolver. For loading scene you have a different type of dummy round obviously.
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  6.  @tng4550  Not an expert but someone who has been brought up in a family who hunts and used guns for generations.
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