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Originally Posted by Wyseguy
Was it a real bullet?. I thought it was a squib load. Never a real bullet. First they used a prop bullet with the powder removed and the primer intact. When the then placed a blank in (primer, powder but no bullet) it was enough to force out the slug inside the barrel. That is what I recall. Could be wrong.
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Kinda' correct... From the official report:
"Hollowed-out cartridges are often used to film close-ups of a gun being loaded; the “dummy” cartridges are then supposed to be removed and replaced with blanks before being fired. The police investigation into Lee’s death concluded that a tip of one of the cartridge’s bullets broke off from the cartridge and lodged in the gun, then fired at Lee along with the blank."