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Holy shit that's a lot of unformatted text to basically say:
You've never taken a gun safety class in your life and holy shit it shows
Wrong. I've shot many kinds of guns many times, and am fully aware of the rules.
I've also been through film school and have been on a set.
Anyone who says anything like you have been clearly hasn't done the latter and you guys always get so upset by it.
I could go on a rant but it's a really basic concept:
One professional is responsible for the guns on set. This is all they do and all they worry about, for safety. Nobody who's job is to remember memorized lines while being rained on and having mud thrown on them has to rmember if their gun is loaded in this scene or not. Less chaos, more safety.
The fact that there is a camera around does not relieve a gun handler of their responsibilities to handle a gun safely.
The role of "armorer" is comparable to that of "wardrobe" or "choreographer". If a dancer kicks a baby in the face while practicing a routine, primary responsibility falls on the dancer, not the person who supplied her dance shoes nor the person who arranged the dance.