Hollywood Exempt from Strict New Yor Gun Control Law

[PICK3]

Day three of the cluelessness run. Let's see how long it goes.

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[-SD-]

Ok so no more movies with guns. I could care less, I find the obsession with firearms and more specifically military style firearms, in this culture rather infantile. I'm just in this thread to point out that hollywood actors are firing live rounds at each other, something I "assumed" even a monkey intrinsically knew. But as to your point they get preferential treatment I don't see it. If we as a society tell hollywood we don't want to see people on screen running around with large machine guns, the kind we can't own ourselves, hey I got no problem with that whatsoever. But to make the claim that they are "techically" breaking laws with their shoots is a "vast" stretch. These shoots are highly regulated highly controlled environments. "Especially" where there's shooting involved and sometimes some explosions going off.

I frankly don't understand why they need to run around with "real" guns anyway. Look at the machine guns from aliens, they weren't real in actuality but you could fool anyone that watched the finish product. So if they can make futuristic or alien weaponry come off as real when they're just plastic molds...what's the issue in the first place?

Commercial gun ranges are more highly controlled than any hollywood set, so whats the big deal taking a scary looking assault rifle and popping off some rounds

 

[redsamurai]

Day three of the cluelessness run. Let's see how long it goes.

Frequent bumps so we don't get behind on the count.

clueless indeed. I absolutely want this to get bumped everyday so people see that first post.

 

[redsamurai]

Commercial gun ranges are more highly controlled than any hollywood set, so whats the big deal taking a scary looking assault rifle and popping off some rounds

Never actually been on a hollywood set but I'm gonna go ahead and say compared to the average local gun range, on which I have been, it doesn't compare. If you're filming a gun battle scene in NY there's a police presence to cordone off the set. There's city officials there, there's the studio's own personnel to make sure no dumb shit is going down that's gonna cost the studio millions in a lawsuit. Trained hollywood weapons specialists. Possible demolitions specialists. Etc, etc, etc.

 

[-SD-]

Never actually been on a hollywood set but I'm gonna go ahead and say compared to the average local gun range, on which I have been, it doesn't compare. If you're filming a gun battle scene in NY there's a police presence to cordone off the set. There's city officials there, there's the studio's own personnel to make sure no dumb shit is going down that's gonna cost the studio millions in a lawsuit. Trained hollywood weapons specialists. Possible demolitions specialists. Etc, etc, etc.

Yea well gun battles in movies are very dynamic with lots of moving and running and jumping while firing and shit. When youre at a gun range youre not even allowed to rapid fire in one spot, or quick draw either. There are bullet proof partitions in each lane, ricochet proof backstop wall, eye and hearing protection required, range officers watching everything. So why is this not a safe place for "assault weapons" to be used?

 

[redsamurai]

Yea well gun battles in movies are very dynamic with lots of moving and running and jumping while firing and shit. When youre at a gun range youre not even allowed to rapid fire in one spot, or quick draw either. There are bullet proof partitions in each lane, ricochet proof backstop wall, eye and hearing protection required, range officers watching everything. So why is this not a safe place for "assault weapons" to be used?

Your onto a different discussion now, one which I never offered my opinion on. This was about plumpy apprently not understanding that live rounds never ever ever get used on a hollywood set. Seperate stunt shoots maybe, but not when the hollywood talent is anywhere near the set. And still, all that "runnin and jumpin and firin and shit"....it's not real ammo. We all know this it ain't news.

 

[redsamurai]

Honestly the way you describe that gun range no I would have no problem with them allowing assault weapons to be used. But what you described was no ordinary common gun range. Last time I was at the range two partitions down were these wiggers firing a some kind of 10mm howitzer "gangsta style". You know, tilting the gun sideways. So when the gun went off the kick was taking the barrel in my general direction. Yes, they were standing back from teh partition so that the gun didn't smack the sides. Of course I immediately put down my .45 cause i had the urge to point it at them, and walked to the front desk. Point of this cool story is that they'd been in there awhile and it was not seen on any camera or nothin. Last time I went to that range. If there were assault rifles in that place?

 

[zwhit]

10mm howitzer? did you just make that up?

 

[redsamurai]

10mm howitzer? did you just make that up?

I'd never seen the gun before, somebody off to the side said he thought it was a 10mm. I've never seen a desert eagle in person but from pictures of people holding one, that's about how big it looked. I'm not a gun enthusiast, I go shooting with friends every so often, so I can't call out exactly what a gun is just from getting a glimpse of it like you guys can. I just remember wondering how the little kid could even hold it with one hand.

 

[bigbassturd]

Lmfao the howitzer is heavy artillery, towed behind a truck into position, and fires a shell the size of my leg

It's nicknamed Big Bertha, and i've seen one knock down an entire building in one shot


your gangster friends probably weren't firing them with one hand