Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Paul Gross

Paul Gross, star of the non-gunless movie Gunless, told theĀ Edmonton Journal he’d swing his Colt 45 around on his finger—when he wasnā€™t pointing itĀ at unsuspecting cast members whilstĀ practicingĀ his quick draw. ā€œ’Usually thereā€™s a code of etiquette on a set where you have guns, and I think I violated every rule there was,’ Gross said with a mischievous grin. ‘I donā€™t know why people put up with me, but they did.’ā€ Students of the cinematic genre know that at least two celluloid stars died from mishandling prop guns that fired blanks. In this case, Paul Gross managed to do the near-impossible: endanger people with a completely unloaded gun.

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