Do you know how many times I have been "shot" by a gun firing blanks? How about the number of times I "shot" special ops troops with blanks? They are not real guns because they cannot fire a round down the barrel.
Reports are that Baldwin shot the gun and the bullet went straight through the producer-gal (Halyna Hutchins) into the director's (Joel Suza) clavicle. It must have been a real gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks. Reports say it was an accidental weapons discharge of a live single round that was accidentally fired. More info...
"Tobey Bays, a prop and set artist by training and the business agent for IATSE Local 44, told The Daily Beast that saying on-set that a gun is “live” doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a live round in it, and can mean there’s a blank in the chamber."
"He further explained that Hollywood prop masters will “only put the amount of blanks into the gun that are meant to be shot in the scene... They’re pretty strict, they’ll always yell out, ‘Gun is hot!’ before they hand it over to the actor.”
I think this says it all....
"Bays said the Rust shoot was “lower budget” and used a local crew that didn’t include any of his union members. There are only two major armorers in Los Angeles that provide modified prop guns for the entire country, he said, and “a proper round would not work in any of those guns.”
What Went Wrong? Gun Prop Experts on Alec Baldwin Disaster
“Clearly, there was a breakdown somewhere, probably multiple ones,” one veteran told The Daily Beast.www.thedailybeast.com
Absolutely correct, he can't lay it all at the feet of the person who handed him the gun. He has to always practice gun safety. Double check the ammo, put bullet proof plexi in front of camera operator, don't aim directly at the person behind the camera & make sure everyone else is out of line of fire. Clearly, multiple safety protocols were skipped.
And if Baldwin was a Trump supporter you would be agreeing with the poster or sitting silently and not defending Baldwin…
Baldwin screwed up someone died.
Yeah, and a poor man would end up in jail and broke because of it, but Baldwin win just pay his lawyers and make a settlement and society will forgive him as usual…
TDS will never die
..unless there was a bad spring/pin/etc, it wasn't accidental---he pulled the trigger ....Reports are that Baldwin shot the gun and the bullet went straight through the producer-gal (Halyna Hutchins) into the director's (Joel Suza) clavicle. It must have been a real gun that was supposed to be loaded with blanks. Reports say it was an accidental weapons discharge of a live single round that was accidentally fired. More info...
"Tobey Bays, a prop and set artist by training and the business agent for IATSE Local 44, told The Daily Beast that saying on-set that a gun is “live” doesn’t necessarily mean there’s a live round in it, and can mean there’s a blank in the chamber."
"He further explained that Hollywood prop masters will “only put the amount of blanks into the gun that are meant to be shot in the scene... They’re pretty strict, they’ll always yell out, ‘Gun is hot!’ before they hand it over to the actor.”
I think this says it all....
"Bays said the Rust shoot was “lower budget” and used a local crew that didn’t include any of his union members. There are only two major armorers in Los Angeles that provide modified prop guns for the entire country, he said, and “a proper round would not work in any of those guns.”
What Went Wrong? Gun Prop Experts on Alec Baldwin Disaster
“Clearly, there was a breakdown somewhere, probably multiple ones,” one veteran told The Daily Beast.
He has no respect for firearms. This is a wake up call for Hollywood to rethink its gun policy. Instead of making billions glorifying gun violence and wagging their finger at law-abiding gun owners, learn how to respect and use a firearm. As I said in an earlier post, movies and the arts community as a whole that intends to use any type of firearm needs to be subject to firearms safety and certification. The NRA can help.
..as I said before, this is 2021 and they should have '''firearms'' that look real but that are harmless
The claim is that he was involved in the non-fatal Crow sequel.
Or tiredness, physical or mental illness, bad luck/timing, distractedness, etc.
That's smart. Chamber prop-guns in a caliber that doesn't exist and ensure that no production ammunition will fit that chambering.
Im starting to wonder if this was sabotage, given the tensions of late.
