That's a cap and ball black powder pistol. It literally cannot be loaded with modern ammo. You can see the nipples for the primers/percussion caps. The chambers have to be loaded with black powder and topped with a ball.
You can't "accidentally" put a live round in one.
He's not wrong. He's just stating the obvious. Hyperinflation will cause the Holodomor that will drive people to do anything, including taking the jab, in exchange for bread for their kids.
The elimination of cash, and central tracking of all commerce, will make the nanny-staters happy by enabling selective enforcement of black market activities while allowing people to be legally maimed and murdered by state approved processes and industries.
The claim is that the projectile passed through the cinematographer and hit the director who was standing behind her.