Fun fact: the 5.7mm round the P90 uses was not being produced as a blank. So the armorers bought TONS of live 5.7mm and made those into blanks.
This actually caused a supply bottleneck for none other than the US Secret Service, who were also using P90s at the time. They actually had to ask, or buy, not sure which, several thousand rounds from the show armorers for training until ammo production could ramp up stateside IIRC.
I read it they had trouble getting ammunition for the P90 because of the Iraq war so they switched to different weapons towards the end of the show. I’m not totally sure though I’m too lazy to look it up.
Fun fact: the 5.7mm round the P90 uses was not being produced as a blank. So the armorers bought TONS of live 5.7mm and made those into blanks.
This actually caused a supply bottleneck for none other than the US Secret Service, who were also using P90s at the time. They actually had to ask, or buy, not sure which, several thousand rounds from the show armorers for training until ammo production could ramp up stateside IIRC.
Secret service: “hello, bullet store? Yes, why are our bullets on back order?”
Bullet store: “oh, sorry, the space people bought most of our stock.”
SS: “The… what?”
BS: “The space marine people. They travel in portals, fight aliens. Yeah they bought like 80% of our ammo”
SS, voice shaking: “Sir please hold for a moment, Im going to have to fetch my supervisor…”
Imagine if somebody fucked one of those up like they did with the set of Rust…
The fact that they didn’t makes one wonder how much one would have to fuck up to actually end up firing live rounds on set.
That is a very fun fact!
I read it they had trouble getting ammunition for the P90 because of the Iraq war so they switched to different weapons towards the end of the show. I’m not totally sure though I’m too lazy to look it up.