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Originally Posted by Galakanokis
Some prop guns especially revolvers and I think this is a western so they may gave been using one will have a fake bullet in the chamber so it looks like it is loaded. This is what killed Lee and not the actual blank. The blank propelled the fake bullet tip in the chamber. With Jon-Erik Hexum is was the force of the blank so close to his temple that killed him.
So many questions.
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Went back and checked the Lee case.
Badly made dummy bullet (bullet with a primer but no gunpowder, used as you said because they look real in close-ups) had stuck in the gun during an earlier scene and not removed before the next scene which used blanks (gunpowder and primer but no bullet).
Bullet+gunpowder=actual shot, aimed right at Lee in a scene where his character was killed. (They didn't use that piece of footage in the film.) Clear case of negligence, and obviously some terrible luck.
(Only a part of the bullet hit Lee, but it's unclear from the descriptions I read whether there was only a part of the bullet stuck in the gun, or if the bullet shattered when the shot was fired. Not that it really matters.)
Very possible this new accident was something similar.
Horrible thing to happen, can't even imagine what the people involved are going through now.
Imagine pulling that trigger, those people hit were propably right in front of Baldwin. Imagine being the person responsible for the guns. Incredibly sad.