“Think of all the billions — I mean with a B — of rounds of ammunition that have been fired on a movie or TV set in the last 75 years — and four people have died,” Baldwin said. “Now, you compare that record to the opioid industry, the airline industry, the automobile industry, the gun industry itself. I could go on and on.”
Baldwin said fallout from the accidental death could lead to the elimination of nearly all live weapons that shoot rounds from film and TV sets. He expects guns to be replaced by “weighted plastic” imitations and that special-effects artists will add the sound and visual firing effects of a gun in post-production — a prediction that drew applause from the Boulder crowd.