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The armourer controls every weapon on set
A licensed specialist checks, loads and hands over each gun, then counts it back The armourer keeps weapons locked away between takes and confirms whether a gun is real, a replica or a rubber dummy. Blank rounds are loaded on set, never beforehand, and everyone nearby is briefed. The role carries legal duties as well as safety ones. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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The armourer controls every weapon on set: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- A licensed specialist checks, loads and hands over each gun, then counts it back. The figure is taken from American Film Institute, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a movies & tv fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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- The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.