Posted on 10/22/2021 4:41:06 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Alec Baldwin fatally shot a cinematographer and injured a director during a tragic accident when a prop gun discharged on the New Mexico movie set of the film “Rust,” authorities said.
The filming location at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Sante Fe was sent into lockdown and production was halted following the accidental double shooting at around 2 p.m.
“There was an accident today on the New Mexico set of ‘Rust’ involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks,” a production spokesperson told Deadline.
The Western drama’s director of photography, Halyna Hutchins, 42, and its director, Joel Souza, 48, were struck in the incident, according to the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office.
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"Baldwin plays outlaw Harland Rust, who helps his estranged 13-year-old grandson run from the law after the teen is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a rancher in Kansas."
Wow...”Single Action”?
That puts a whole ‘nother spin on it, doesn’t it.
If I recall correctly, Bruce Lee’s son Brandon Lee was fatally shot with a “prop” gun while filming “The Crow.” There have been a couple of other similar incidents as well.
I guess the picture’s weapons master never told Baldwin to keep his booger hook OFF of the bang switch when handling a firearm. And what mental midget handed an actor a firearm loaded with live rounds?
I’ve been shot with blank rounds before...as close as 10 feet. Painful but not lethal.
Nothing will happen.
In the movie being shot, so to speak, Baldwin plays outlaw Harland Rust, who helps his estranged 13-year-old grandson run from the law after the teen is sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a rancher in Kansas. Interdasting.
“Just... damn.”
Hard to believe. Terrible thing.
All he had to do was point the weapon in a safe direction and look into the cylinder.
Doesn’t sound like blanks or a prop to me.
He’d have to be pretty close to kill someone with a blank.
In any case. let’s see if he gets the manslaughter charges the rest of us would.
Where is that information from? There is a lot here that hasn't been released yet, and the devil is in the details.
Regardless, there are at least four ways to get more than one discharge or more than one projectile in a revolver with just one pull of the trigger.
1) Sympathetic discharge of OTHER loaded chambers in the revolver cylinder following firing of the proper chamber. More common with cheap weapons and .22's, but also with old ball and cap revolvers. Always a possibility with any revolver, though, especially if poorly maintained. See for example https://www.bevfitchett.us/gunshot-wounds/sympathetic-discharge-of-rimfire-firearms.html
2) A double load in the fired chamber, either intentionally or from previous misfire. Obviously more common with black powder hand-loaded chamber, as modern cartridges couldn't accept two proper cartridges in the same chamber. Now you could put a full small or medium caliber bullet or cartridge in a long chamber ahead of a proper round (think The Judge .410 shotshell/.45 LC cartridge cylinder, with a .22 or .25 bullet or cartridge ahead of a .45 LC cartridge, for example). https://www.taurususa.com/revolvers/taurus-judge-series
3) A squib, or primer-only discharge from a previous shot, with the bullet or wadding or whatever still lodged in the barrel (no discharge of the gunpowder, just the primer, giving enough gas to push the bullet or wadding out of the cartridge, out of the chamber, and down the barrel a short distance, but not enough force to send the object(s) out of the barrel). If the barrel is not cleared, these objects could become the additional projectiles for the next shot, whether a live round or a blank (if the barrel doesn't blow up in the hand of the person firing the second shot).
4) An improperly aligned cylinder (poor maintenance or damaged), making the fired chamber not send the gases or projectile into the forcing cone and down the barrel, but rather, striking the edge of that cone and/or the handgun frame around the barrel, splitting the gases or projectile into two or more pieces/streams, with some materials going away from the cylinder in a direction different than the pieces/stream still going down the barrel. The cone or frame of the gun can also be damaged this way and become secondary pieces of metal flying away from the gun with force.
Oh my gosh!
Blanks are no joke. We fired them during exercises using BFAs and never thought anything about it. Years after that though, a buddy of mine gave me several stripper clips of 5.56mm blanks. He told me that they were good for destroying hornet nests. I wasn’t quite believing him. He told me to get about 2.5 feet from the nest and just pull the trigger. So I did, and the nest (bigger than a grapefruit) was literally obliterated into very small fragments. All the hornets were either dead, or on the ground dying. I was impressed, and a little surprised.
So true, it's so harmful people should be arrested.
Jon-Erik Hexum lost his life to a prop gun when he sit himself my accident in 1984.
Was it an AR assault prop gun?
Why would Baldwin even point a gun at a non-actor. Gun safety is gun safety. You don’t ever point a gun at anyone. Just like a typical elitist who thinks that rules don’t apply to him.
Given that this story is supposedly taking place in the late 1800s, an AR would be impressive technology for sure!
I remember that one too, Joe Kenda. He realized what it was when he noticed the victims’ red skin and he, himself was getting light headed. He was wondering why the cat was dead too and thinking maybe it was some sort of satanic ritual. Except that it looked like the cat just went to sleep same as usual.
I have a friend who narrowly escaped the same fate when working on his brother’s house in Louisiana after the recent hurricane. Lots of damage.
They put his generator under the carport, not realizing the prevailing wind was pushing the fumes right back into the house. Windows and doors destroyed, half a roof, and wind pushed CO into the section they were in. His fire alarm started going off, and when he went to check, it turned out he had bought fire AND carbon monoxide detectors, (which he never realized until then) and the CO alarm had gone off. Both wives were already nodding off, my friend was light headed and groggy...
That alarm is the only reason they are still alive today, everyone in the house was already starting to nod off. CO is some nasty stuff. No odor, no color, nothing to tell you it’s there, and you just nod off to sleep not knowing you’re not really just nodding off.
People have been known to commit suicide by locking themselves in a garage with a running car, windows open and a full tank. I’ve seen stories about people who ran a garden hose into a car window, taped to the tailpipe, but don’t know if those are true.
Kenda emptied the house fast and called in someone from the gas company with a “sniffer”, who found lethal levels of CO in the house. He had to keep everybody out until the house had aired out and the sniffer said it was safe. Later he found the problem with the HVAC unit.
In my Field Med class maybe half had BFAs. I was not among them. Had to cock after each shot. Shooting blanks at each other in the dark.
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