It literally floors me that this happened. It's bee pointed out that literally dozens of individual failures took place before that happened, and the largest of them all was that from the very top of the chart, that chief of police was unaware that his men were pointing real guns at people and pulling the trigger. There are so many mistakes all the way down the chart, and as was said, dozens of missed safety opportunities.
Brandon Lee was killed by a barrel plug. That begs the question, what sort of freaking idiot goes on a movie set and aims a real gun dead center at a man's chest and pulls the trigger? Following gun safety rules, why wasn't it pointed to the side, since NOBODY would know?
Almost fifty years ago, on the set of a television cop show, some brain donor started fooling around with his blank loaded, but real pistol, put it at his temple and fired, good Lord, in all of his times with blanks on set, did he not know what would happen?
The simple fact is that there should be a range managter wherever guns are being handled by many whose complete responsibility is to keep track of every gun and round of ammo. Not a trainer, a man dedicated to safety, with no other duties.
Something needs to be said. The idea that we shouldn't point at something we don't want to kill should be worded "don't want to destroy." I know a guy who shot his television. I knew a guy who kept sharp for deer season by dry firing at his neighbor's dogs.
I've always nagged at people to think of their firearm like a laser, or space weapon, and that the shot would penetrate everything out to eternity. An AD might not hit anyone inside the immediate vicinity, but how safe is that school bus that just passed buy as your rifle discharged?