Jon-Erik Hexum. Put a Model 29 with "5 in one" blanks to his head and pulled the trigger, either thinking it was empty or "They're only blanks!" Either way he was wrong.I seem to remember a celebrity getting killed with a prop gun many years ago. I'm sure there are a few.
You should watch the video of Keanu Reeves training for John Wick at a place in Cali. It is way cool. The dude is awesome.
Smith said we are living in a “gun culture.”
“What we’re really talking about in this issue is people walking around the street with guns that can make a decision whether or not they’re going to kill someone, right? And that’s even more difficult, because there’s really no way back from that. This is a gun culture. And it’s painful for me, because I cannot figure out how to be helpful,”
Brandon Lee was another. A squib from a dummy round (primer only) had lodged the bullet in the 44 magnum barrel and then in a later scene a blank was used from 10-20 ft which propelled the stuck bullet killing Lee.