EXPLAINER: Guns on movie sets: How does that work?

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died Thursday aft a prop firearm that histrion Alec Baldwin was holding discharged connected the New Mexico acceptable of "Rust."

Director Joel Souza was besides deed and injured but has since been released from the hospital.

The sheriff's section is investigating and galore things are inactive unknown, including whether Hutchins was killed by a existent slug oregon a blank.

On movie sets, weapons masters are successful complaint of the weapons and indispensable beryllium contiguous erstwhile a limb is being used.

And according to the guidelines of the Actors' Equity Association, firearms indispensable beryllium loaded by the prop master, armorer, oregon experienced persons moving nether their nonstop supervision.

WHAT IS A “PROP FIREARM”?

According to the Associated Press, it tin put from a rubber artifact to a existent firearm that tin occurrence a projectile and it's considered a existent weapon adjacent erstwhile shooting blanks.

WHAT ARE BLANKS AND CAN THEY KILL?

Yes, they tin wounded and adjacent termination idiosyncratic who is adjacent by. They are a benignant of weapon cartridge that contains gunpowder but nary bullet.

IN THIS INSTANCE, WERE BLANKS FIRED?

That question cannot beryllium answered yet until the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office investigates what “type of projectile was discharged.”