Tom Selleck Teaches Proper Gun Handling on Set

[Ben]

But of course the headline reads, "Selleck loses temper".

As one of the commenters stated, the headline should have read, "Selleck corrects idiot".

http://www.showbizspy.com/article/229667/tom-selleck-loses-temper-with-gun-toting-extra.html#comment-465970

[TommyGunn]

Saw that the other day.  Yes, the newspaper guys got it bass ackward.  Pointing guns at people is bad karma.  Even prop guns.  I don't think Selleck was wrong at all. 

[Jamisjockey]

Selleck should have “relieved” the fool of the gun and smacked him into the middle of next week.

 

[41magsnub]

Which famous kung fu actor was it that bit the big one fooling around with a prop gun?

[TommyGunn]

Bruce Lee was shot with a gun which was supposed to have been a prop gun, but somehow managed to have a live round.

In the mid 1980s an actor named John Eric Hexum was starring in a action spy TV series and ....in a moment of idiotic playfulness ... put a blank-loaded gun to his head and pulled the trigger.  Now this WAS a gun loaded with a blank, but it still created a large overpressure in the barrel and gave the actor a fatal concussion.

[bedlamite]

Bruce Lee was shot with a gun which was supposed to have been a prop gun, but somehow managed to have a live round.

That was Brandon Lee, on the set of The Crow. Bruce died from a cerebral edema right after filming Enter the Dragon

[Devonai]

I've been watching the first season of Magnum, P.I. on Hulu Plus.  Selleck often demonstrates firearms handling that we would balk at, but back then I suppose we could blame it all on beginner's ignorance.
As for Brandon Lee:

On March 31, 1993, while making The Crow, the crew filmed a scene in which his character walks into his apartment and discovers his fiancée being beaten and raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film's villains, was supposed to fire a pistol at Lee as he walked onto the scene.[5]

Because the movie's second unit was running behind schedule, they decided to make dummy cartridges (cartridges that outwardly appear to be functional but contain no propellant or primers) from real cartridges by pulling out the bullets, dumping out the propellant and reinserting the bullets. However, the team neglected to remove the primers, which, if fired, could still produce just enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel (a squib load). At some point prior to the fatal scene, the live primer in one of the improperly constructed dummy rounds was discharged by an unknown person while in the pistol, leaving the bullet stuck in the barrel.[6]

This malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was later reloaded with blank cartridges and used in the scene in which Lee was shot. When the first blank cartridge was fired, the stuck bullet was propelled out of the barrel and struck Lee in the abdomen, lodging in his spine. He fell down instantly, and director Alex Proyas shouted "Cut!". When Lee did not get up, the cast and crew rushed to him and found that he was wounded. He was immediately rushed to the New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington by ambulance, but following a six-hour operation to remove the bullet, Lee was pronounced dead at 1:04 pm on March 31, 1993. He was 28 years old.[7]

From Wikipedia.

[roo_ster]

Good for Tom. 

My wife set an acquaintance of mine straight in a similar fashion.  He was a little butt hurt.  I told him to get over it and follow the lady's advice or we were leaving.

[TommyGunn]

That was Brandon Lee, on the set of The Crow. Bruce died from a cerebral edema right after filming Enter the Dragon

  Well, as they say, "OOOOOOOOOOOOPS"

[230RN]

There's no "Ooops" or apology sufficient for an AD or ND.  I've had two (fortunately with no real ill effects) in sixty years of shooting and if that ain't gonna teach you good, nothing will.  I can testify that there's no louder sound than when you get a bang instead of a click.

As far as gun handling is concerned, it's only relatively recently that there's been a lot of "consciousness-raising" with respect to firearms safety rules.  It seems to me that up until about ~twenty-ish years ago, after initial new-shooter instructions, the rules were almost implicit, rather than stated frequently.  Just seems that way. I wonder if this coincides with Cooper's distillation down to "The Four Rules."

By the way, a couple of NRA Director elections ago, Selleck was the single biggest vote-getter.

Shouting out danger is not necessarily "anger" or "losing your temper," by the way.

A stern lecture with elevated voice isn't, either.

However, with Selleck's imposing physical presentation and deep voice, I have no doubt that a couple of wimpusses were "surprised" and had the backs of their hands touching their collarbones, with their mouths forming a little "O,"

ETA:  You only have until 10 Apr to get your NRA Ballot in to the vote-counting outfit.  Not postmarked 10 Apr, but received by them.

Terry, 230RN

[Matthew Carberry]

Lee was the innocent in that case.

No "oops" involved.

Pure negligence.

He had a career building.  Rapid Fire, Showdown in Little Tokyo, The Crow.  He had acting ability, the willingness to learn and could have transcended action films.  Like Ledger he was a premature loss to film, even setting aside the family history.

[Hawkmoon]

In the mid 1980s an actor named John Eric Hexum was starring in a action spy TV series and ....in a moment of idiotic playfulness ... put a blank-loaded gun to his head and pulled the trigger. 

Not exactly a "moment." Hexum liked to play Russian roulette with the prop guns. He finally "won."

Guns are not toys. We ignore that at our peril.