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Maybe Baldwin was doing a close up. In such scenes, the photographer is protected from any blank round discharge (wadding etc.) by a Perspex shield. BUT, some Hollywood sources now claim the round fired was a real cartridge and not a blank. The firearm was likely a .44 or .45 caliber revolver as this was a western. The round IMO would penetrate the Perspex shield, and could have struck the woman with a through and through that then also wounded the director in his clavicle. We shall see.