You missed out that there had already been three ‘misfires’ on set before this one, and that someone actually wrote to the production manager to warn them that there was a dangerous lack of gun safety...

So you have an armorer whose only other experience was on a film where she routinely employed unsafe procedures, an assistant director who was known for bypassing safety meetings and protocols, and a gun used for live ammo target practice shortly before being used for a scene.

I swear, with every new headline this story just keeps getting worse.

bless that man

Wow, that’s even better than having your name in the phone book!

If I ever meet him, I think I’ll go meta and recognize him as Charles-Haden Savage and talk about how much I liked Brazzos.

I read a profile of Steve Martin where he explained that signing autographs for his fans every time he went out in public became too time consuming, so he resorted to handing out these pre-autographed cards.

Probably a dealer of antique firearms, possibly one whom they found locally in New Mexico and who had no experience selling to film productions. Whoever delivered it likely didn’t bother to make sure it was empty and just assumed the prop master would take care of it.

Why the fuck would live ammo be anywhere near a film set using prop weapons

Well, from the article, it’s a job they shouldn’t have had or been doing — so that checks out.

Jesus, that’s... horrible. Who the fuck brings live ammunition to a film set? Someone clearly didn’t do their job.

Well, they sure as shit probably will now. This is tragic to a nearly inexplicable degree. I can’t even figure out the logistics of it. Not to mention this happening directly after Ruby Rose lays out a shit-load of disturbing accusations of flagrant safety violations on CW shows, and all of it in the shadow of a…

A production still of Samuel L. Jackson in the last Spider-Man movie made the rounds of film Twitter a year or so back because he was holding what was obviously a fake gun painted green so they could CGI in a gun in post, and the reaction was basically, “Ha ha, Marvel’s so lame, they just CGI everything.”

After Brandon Lee i always figured they'd figure out a way to stop using prop guns but it's 2021 this is seriously one of the few good sides to CGIing everything. 

I remember seeing a video not too long ago where someone was pointing a gun at Will Smith on set and he immediately took it away and disabled it — and thinking he was maybe overreacting but clearly he was right. A gun is a gun, you never know and there’s precedent.

Brandon Lee during the making of The Crow as well.

seems like prop guns have killed a lot of actors over the years. i remember being a small child and finding out the main character in one of my favorite shows (actor Jon-Erik Hexum of Voyagers!) died goofing around, pretending to shoot himself in the head with a gun loaded with blanks, in a break between takes.

Kaiji

It’s actually a list of 13 items: 

It takes enough courage just to not give up, either by taking things into your own hands with more drastic measures or even simply letting yourself succumb to the pressure, allowing yourself to waste away or stay the worst version of yourself.