The mind boggles at the mentality of some people in the USA!
Hollywood is against Gun Control, BECAUSE IT WILL BE HARDER TO MAKE REALISTIC MOVIES!!!
WTF is the matter with that country, that big business can BE AGAINST saving the lives of innocent people?
The people need to take a stand against ANY Government, Group, or Organisation, whose operations are detrimental, to the welfare of the citizens of the country or countries, in which they operate.
I simply cannot believe something like this could happen!
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Hollywood fights NY gun control
- Date
- May 3, 2013
United States
The sweeping gun control measure signed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and hailed by Democratic leaders has a surprising critic: Hollywood.
Officials in the movie and television industry say the new laws could prevent them from using the lifelike assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that they have employed in shows such as Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and films such as The Dark Knight Rises.
Twenty-seven television and film projects, including programs such as Blue Bloods and Person of Interest, are in production in New York state using assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, the Motion Picture Association of America says.
Industry workers say they need real weapons for verisimilitude; that it would be impractical to try to make fakes that could fire blanks; and that the entertainment industry should not be penalised accidentally by a law intended as a response to mass shootings.
”Weapons are part of our history as a culture as humans,” said Ryder Washburn, vice-president of the Specialists, a leading supplier of firearms for productions, based in Manhattan. ”To tell stories, you need them.”
Vans Stevenson, the senior vice-president for state government affairs at the Motion Picture Association, says: ”Without clarification that the use of prop guns is still permitted on sets, many of the dozens of productions currently shooting in New York could be forced to go elsewhere.”
But some lawmakers, feeling stung by conservative and upstate voters over the gun-control law, do not wish to vote on it again, even to make what the industry describes as a technical correction. Gun rights activists, who are challenging the new firearm restrictions in court, have mocked the idea of a so-called Hollywood exception.
”They’re saying, ‘Why are we being held to this standard when Hollywood is getting a pass, and they’re the ones who are promoting the violence?’ ” New York State Rifle and Pistol Association president Thomas King said.
The new laws expand New York’s ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and, beginning next January, will prohibit the possession of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. Movie industry lawyers say they are concerned the ban could apply to the magazines used in prop guns on dozens of productions in New York state.
Firearms on film and television sets are modified to shoot blanks; in some cases, the barrels are completely blocked. But the guns, in many cases, feature magazines with a capacity above 10 rounds, and industry officials worry that uncertainty over potential legal liability could be enough to drive studios to move productions to other states.
Asked in February about the industry’s concerns, Mr Cuomo expressed support for revising the law. ”There’s no reason not to make a change like that to give an industry comfort,” he said at the time.
But since then, as it has become clear that any changes to the gun law will be difficult to get through the legislature, administration officials have begun arguing that the law will not affect film productions, and say they are no longer pursuing an amendment.
Entertainment is big business in New York, and both mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent, and Mr Cuomo, a Democrat, have courted the film and television production industry. Film production in New York was responsible for more than 46,000 jobs in 2011, according to a study prepared for the Motion Picture Association.
”You’d hate to lose a $100 million picture because there was a scene in it that required automatic weapons and we were unable to accommodate them,” said John Ford, the president of Local 52 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.
Industry officials said they tried to warn Mr Cuomo’s office, as it was drafting a gun control bill, that the legislation could affect the film and television production.
They were joined by Mr Bloomberg’s office, which says it told the governor’s office before the gun measure was passed that the movie and television industry was concerned. But the bill was passed rapidly.
The legislature moved so fast – the Senate approved the measure on its first day in session, and the Assembly on its second – that few lawmakers, and almost no one in the general public, had time to digest or debate the details.
AP
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