Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "Baldwin was practicing drawing his prop gun when it discharged, according to director" video.

Apparently you are unfamiliar with the movie genre of Westerns which often feature gunslinger characters that perform quick draws of weapons and begin firing as soon as the gun clears the holster and the business end is pointed anywhere near the target. The issue discussed here is that the firearm was loaded with live rounds (real bullets), and secondarily, that the firearm wasn’t disabled from firing live rounds in the first place.
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@flavortown289 People like Carl would be surprised at how many ordinary people, some with liberal politics, others more towards the center, are gun owners. The difference between them and people like him is that they don’t advertise that they’re gun owners. They don’t go out of their way to imply it. They don’t brag about it. They don’t base their self esteem or their identities as being gun owners. They don’t pathologically build their lives around firearms. If people like Carl think they have an edge on ordinary people whose political views differs from theirs, and they think they can bully those people with firearms, they’re in for a big surprise.
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“Cold gun” means unloaded completely. “Hot gun” means loaded with blanks. “Homicidally negligent armorer” means a gun loaded with live rounds on set.
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A prop is ANYTHING an actor touches or interacts with, regardless of functionality. Laypersons unfamiliar with theater or cinema often don’t know this. Thus a real gun, a real phone, a real coffee cup, or whatever, is a PROP. However, you are correct that a “prop gun” is not a real gun as it cannot fire projectiles.
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This is true, but one of those “what if” things. If she had been more concerned for her crew and stood in solidarity with them (over separate issues than gun safety), this wouldn’t have happened. Instead she seemed more concerned about her career taking off. I can understand that’s not always an easy decision, but just the same, there are a number of ways she could have supported their demands even if she didn’t walk. There are legally protected organizing actions that fall short of quitting, such as work stoppages. I have to wonder whether any of the crew members contacted the union to help them organize. The DP surely had contacts there she could have given to the crew who eventually walked. It’s true that this would have angered the producers, but a DP needs her crew and should be willing to take a bullet for them, not as she literally did for the producers. But hey, at least the gun was aimed above the line.
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For a rehearsal and or blocking a scene, Baldwin could have used a complete dummy gun that didn’t fire anything, blanks, bullets, or air soft BBS. It wouldn’t have mattered where he pointed a dummy gun.
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