Bodycam footage shows Alec Baldwin on 'Rust' movie set after fatal shooting
https://youtu.be/g8HVioRT9sY
Think some of it is new footage, not sure.
Yeah, I’m still mystified how live rounds wound up in a movie pistol.
Seems like a very major fuck up to me.
I’m not sure how the court will deal with this but damn, why would you have hot rounds on your set? The whole tragedy is really weird.
The gun went through at least two pairs of hands (the armorer's and Baldwin's) before it was pointed toward people and fired. If either of them had checked it, and knew what they were looking at, the shooting wouldn't have happened. Yeah, yeah, it's the armorer's job and not the actor's. Well, maybe that's the way they do it on movie sets, but that's not how basic firearms safety works, in the real world. You don't ever take someone's word for it that a gun isn't loaded, or is loaded with blanks or dummy rounds. You check it yourself.
No, checking a gun to see if it's loaded isn't technical, and doesn't require formal training. Anyone can learn to do it in seconds.
Oh, I don’t disagree, that was a senseless accident. It should never have happened.
shareThat's exactly how it works on a movie set. The armorer had set up the guns and secured them. Some idiot brought live rounds on the set and decided to target practice after the guns had been secured. If anyone should be charged it's them.
shareIf his name wasn't Alec Baldwin this case would have been treated like an actual homicide case and they would have started with the assumption that the most probable scenario played out. The most probable scenario is someone put live rounds in the gun with intent, and there are only two people who handled the weapon and only one of them knew they were going to point it at someone and pull the trigger. But because it is a famous actor we must assume he's an angel.
shareHas to have something to do with that live fire range they had set up. Somebody had live bullets in their pocket and tossed em in the wrong bin. Something like that.
shareAs others have said before, folks were using live rounds as target practice on their break time. Somehow the gun got mixed into the props and wound up on Alec's hand.
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