Point of conjecture - 'Actors fire blanks at the camera all the time - Actors do not fire at living people ' ... There are multiplre procedures on film sets for safe gun handling and practice - the most important is never firing a weapon at an actual person. Distinction is important.
I think it's implied that behind the camera is a person operating it. Unless they just have stationary cameras for shit like this. They do fire blanks in the direction of other people and I can think of one time in particular that a squib came out and killed an actor. Brandon Lee.
No, standard procedure on a Professional film set is to set up camera first to capture the gun action/ firing etc, and then crew to withdraw to a safe distance and watch from a monitor.
Also various perspective techniques can be employed to 'not actually have the people filming in the line of fire' .
All this protocol is decades old - borne out of needless deaths and accidents of film crew and actors ...
A blank can fuck you up and kill you, especially some of these really flashy types they cook up. Makes sense to still abide by the rules of firearms whenever there's a combustible object loaded into a working firearm.
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