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May 8th, 2013 at 9:01 pm
i guess they’ll have to stick to movies about The Sad Clown Of Life.
May 8th, 2013 at 9:14 pm
And nothing of value was lost.
May 8th, 2013 at 9:35 pm
No problem; they’ll get exemptions from fawning Progressive admirers in power (that is unless they be among the miniscule minority who’re trying to make movies depicting the American Principles of Liberty in a positive light, in which case the hammer will be dropped on them).
You all know how this works. Gun laws are for those people, not our people. We only have to enforce them selectively. That’s the whole point, don’t you know.
May 8th, 2013 at 10:12 pm
Props are firearms although they do not fire projectiles downrange. The SAFE Act did not, to the best of my knowledge, address projectiles. The television and movie studios should live by the same rules as the rest of the citizens of New York State regarding firearms, characteristics and capacities.
I’m sorry Cuomo and Bloomberg, there is a law of unintended consequences.
May 9th, 2013 at 10:32 am
The thing is, they can make their films without actual firearms. They’ve been doing it for years with flash-paper and propane prop guns for safety in close ups. Not to mention rubber prop guns with CGI.
Robert Rodriguez does the rubber gun/CGI thing all the time. The cathedral gunfight in Once Upon A Time In Mexico is all rubber gun/CGI, down to the bullet hits on the walls (see the DVD extras for details). The main problem they had was that Banderas kept making faces and “pew-pew” sounds as he mimed shooting the bad guys.
May 9th, 2013 at 11:07 am
You are all seeing this inconvenience to the film industry as a bug in the recently passed law, an unintended consequence.
It is not.
The ability to grant favorable treatment to selected groups is a feature of the recently passed law, and the revisions to it that are and will occur.
Why pass a good law that merely decreases criminality, when you can pass a badly written law that offers many opportunities for corrupt dealings with special interests, to the benefit of both parties?
May 9th, 2013 at 12:34 pm
Excellent point Mikee.
BTW, IllTemperedCur: you’re very right about the use of CGI and rubber guns. However–New York City has such strict laws that even rubber guns come with HUGE amounts of paperwork and hoops to jump through. A detective novel author wrote a piece a few years back about her trials and tribulations in getting a prop gun to do a photo shoot for her inside jacket photo on a new novel. So who knows, even the rubber guns may be a problem under this new law.