If you were shooting a .22 caliber weapon the person hit may or may not die depending upon where the bullet hit them. However, this was a .45 Caliber slug which is powerful enough to go all the way through one person and into another. So, the female Director of Photography likely bled to death before they could help her enough to survive the hit. The Assistant director likely had the same slug in him but it didn't do enough damage to him to kill him because the bullet didn't go all the way through him and come out the other side but likely lodged somewhere not fatal or where he might bleed to death like the Director of Photography likely did (because of the distance of hospitals away from the shoot. She was eventually taken by a hospital Helicopter but was dead by the time she reached the hospital I believe likely from blood loss and shock.
There are a few pistols that can cause this kind of Damage and one is a .45 Caliber slug shot from a Colt .45 which is an antique weapon and another which is a similar caliber is a 9mm like you see in a 9 mm Glock which is usually an automatic with a clip that goes into the handle.
However, the gun Baldwin was given was an actual antique 1880s or 1890s weapon that could actually shoot real bullets in addition to blanks so it was an antique actually from the late 1800s.
Another weapon designed to go through more than one person was the M1 which is a World War I
30 odd 6 which was designed to shoot through up to 10 men without stopping on a battlefield even though most of them could only hold 5 or 6 bullets at a time unless they had a special magazine to hold more bullets. It also will kill almost any car or truck engine and can shoot through almost any car or truck block and permanently destroy the engine if shot directly through the engine block. So, in some ways this was an early but very effective Assault weapon even though it was a bolt action and not an automatic.
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