What is a movie prop master?
Normally it’s the title of the person in charge of ALL props, (pencils, chairs, desks, flags, curtains, lamps, etc.) not just guns or weapons related gear. However, in the politically correct atmosphere we live in now, many folks (especially the ANTI-GUN people) freak out if you say you’re an armorer or gun wrangler. So many years ago, I got into the habit of just blurting out that I was a Movie Prop Master so that people didn’t get all weird on me. I intentionally implied that all movie weapons were harmless since they only fired ‘blanks’. Not true of course, we use mostly live firing weapons, except for the replicas, airsoft stand ins, and rubber stunt guns, but I’d rather not have some local city councilperson make a stink about any local film production because the set has ‘live guns(!)’ on it. Only a few times have I ever fully been the “Prop Master” i.e. in charge of ALL props, weapons related or not, on a set, and they were small films. I actually HATE hunting for table cloths o
