These guidelines are intended to give recommendations on the safe handling, use and storage of rearms. Firearms include prop guns, rubber guns, plastic guns, non-guns, flintlock guns, pistols, machine guns, rifles and shotguns that shoot blank ammunition.

The Property Manager (or, in his/her absence, the weapons handler and/or other appropriate personnel determined by the locality or the needs of the production) will be the individual acting in the interest of the Production Company for obtaining, maintaining and handling all rearms for the production. He/she will work in conjunction with the company’s designated Safety Representative to assure that the following standards are adhered to.