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The Times reported it had reviewed a text message sent by one of the crew members to the film’s unit production manager just before a live round was fired by Baldwin during filming. “We’ve now had 3 accidental discharges. This is super unsafe,” that message reportedly read.
1 posted on 10/23/2021 3:58:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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From the 911 call:

“We had two people accidentally shot on a movie set by a prop gun, we need help immediately,” script supervisor Mamie Mitchell told an emergency dispatcher. “We were rehearsing and it went off, and I ran out, we all ran out.”

The dispatcher asked if the gun was loaded with a real bullet.

“I cannot tell you. We have two injuries,” Mitchell replied. “And this (expletive) AD (assistant director Dave Halls ) that yelled at me at lunch, asking about revisions….He’s supposed to check the guns. He’s responsible for what happens on the set.”


2 posted on 10/23/2021 4:04:08 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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How do you have three accidental firearm discharges? I’ve never had one.


3 posted on 10/23/2021 4:05:18 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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Sorry but if a proper investigation is being done, a few things would have already happened and would be continuing to happen 1) Baldwin would have been arrested immediately on suspicion of homicide.Then tested for drugs and alcohol 2) The police would have immediately diagramed the position of Baldwin, the position of the woman killed and the man who was also shot by the same bullet.3) the police would have determined from witnesses exactly what activity if any was occuring on the set at the time of the shooting. All three should have been completed within four hours of the shooting. Then the relationship between Baldwin and the woman he shot should be investigated in great detail. Then and only then could a non biased rational DA decide what if anything to charge Baldwin. So far it appears the fix is already in.


7 posted on 10/23/2021 4:14:08 PM PDT by allendale
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Baldwin like all leftists doesn’t want to spend his money. He only wanted to spend your money


10 posted on 10/23/2021 4:18:56 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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No need for any in depth analysis. Low budget, not paying what for competent armorers, gun had live rounds in it because of wide spread incompetency, some one got killed.


12 posted on 10/23/2021 4:21:10 PM PDT by The Sentient Sheep
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Has the OSHA investagation started yet?


13 posted on 10/23/2021 4:22:35 PM PDT by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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Malfunctions in a firearm don’t turn a blank cartridge into a live cartridge. Just sayin’


21 posted on 10/23/2021 4:28:07 PM PDT by TigersEye (Resistance is not futile!)
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And again, why was live ammo even on the set? For what purpose? And who loaded the live round in the gun?


22 posted on 10/23/2021 4:28:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer (If at first you don't succeed, so much for skydiving)
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Trying to put a happy spin on this using the term accidental discharge. In reality they were negligent discharges.


25 posted on 10/23/2021 4:32:12 PM PDT by 556x45
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I am having trouble getting my head around this. I don’t get why there would even be the possibility of live rounds in a prop gun on a movie set. I don’t get the part about “accidental discharges.” I watch “Gunsmoke” a lot. True to its name, there is always a lot of shooting. I am not aware of anyone getting injured, much less killed, for real.


31 posted on 10/23/2021 4:40:18 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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Oh what use is live rounds in a movie?


36 posted on 10/23/2021 5:00:49 PM PDT by cableguymn (We need a redneck in the white house.... But the fact checkers said thein story was false!)
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I have a chair with a bullet hole. I know exactly how firearms discharge accidentally.

It always revolves around a sequence of events none of which you ever expect to happen all at once, and while they are happening you say to yourself “We need to stop this now”.


37 posted on 10/23/2021 5:04:48 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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Why would there be any live rounds in the first place?


40 posted on 10/23/2021 5:09:40 PM PDT by vigilante2
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42 posted on 10/23/2021 5:15:53 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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engrish...

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/world-59020397

Alec Baldwin: Dem tell Hollywood actor say prop gun dey safe before fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins - court records

Di gun wey actor Alec Baldwin fire on set, wey kill one woman, na one assistant director wey tell am say e dey safe give am, court records show.

Di director wey dem no name no know say di prop gun contain live ammunition and indicate say e no dey loaded by shouting “cold gun!”, na so di records tok.

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins suffer fatal shooting for her chest for Thursday incident on di set of di film Rust.

“My heart brake for her husband, their son, and all wey know and love Halyna,” im write.

Ms Hutchins, wey dey 42 years bin dey work as director of photography for di movie.

“Words no dey to convey my shock and sadness regarding di tragic accident wey take di life of Halyna Hutchins, wey be wife, mother and colleague wey we admire,” im tweet.

“I dey fully co-operate with di police investigation to address how dis tragedy occur.”

Dem fly Ms Hutchins go hospital by helicopter after di shooting on Thursday afternoon but she died from her injuries.

Director Joel Souza, 48, suffer injury and dem carry am from di scene for Bonanza Creek Ranch by ambulance.


47 posted on 10/23/2021 5:31:00 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Why do they even use real guns in a stupid movie? There are guns available that fire only blanks.


48 posted on 10/23/2021 5:33:48 PM PDT by Clarancebeaks
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Sounds like Union squawking to cover for some moron loading that gun with a real bullet. Typical Union stunt. Got a woman killed this time.

Baldwin is an ass, but I don’t believe for a second that he loaded that gun. He probably doesn’t know how, and he’s not enough of an actor to pull it off, if he did.


62 posted on 10/23/2021 6:31:26 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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Judge Jeannine just said on her show this evening, that the father of the young “armorer”, is a well-known armorer who the 24 year old said “taught her everything” she knows. Looks like she got the job on her father’s coat tails.


67 posted on 10/23/2021 6:50:49 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty (MAGA FOREVER 🇺🇸)
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I was trying to give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Sure
was uncalled for.

He and his leadership crew have buried themselves on this
one.

Looks like it couldn’t have happened to a more deserving
guy.

So sorry a woman had to die to get this jerk under control.

Heads better roll over this.

Can’t wait to see how Saturday Night Live covers it.


78 posted on 10/23/2021 7:40:23 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Democrats, fixing things that haven't been broken, so they don't work, for over 197 years.)
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All libtards are super unsafe. They haven’t a clue what they do 🤪


88 posted on 10/23/2021 8:55:14 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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