Tragedy on the set of Rust reminds me of the decades old story of Jon-Erik Hexum, young rising star actor who as a joke put a prop gun to his head on set and fired the trigger not realizing that a "blank" if it's fired in direct contact with your head has a forceful enough ...
2/ discharge to kill you if you put it to your temple. He died. Young handsome guy in his 20s. This was like in the mid-80s. I've been wanting to ask: has there been any reporting of what set of facts possibly led to Baldwin fatally injuring one person and seriously injuring ...
3/ another? Were live bullets in the prop gun? I honestly don't know if that's possible. If it is what makes it different from a gun? why not just use a gun with blanks? This isn't a leading question: are there any details on this?
Okay there you go. Propmaster on set wasn't union but local hire and somehow or another (presumably just tragic/negligent accident) live rounds were in the gun rather than blanks. 
2/ hollywood producer pal of mine tells me that having any actual gun even w blanks on set these days is pretty uncommon since it's so easy to recreate the sound and visual in post-production. blanks and a real gun these days tends to be on low budget productions.
3/ ADDENDA: My note above is incomplete. The Propmaster on the Rust set wasn't a member of Local 44 but we don't know if that person might have been a member of Local 480, which covers New Mexico. That can't be ruled out.
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