Posted on 10/22/2021 6:42:26 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The gun handed to Alec Baldwin before the fatal shooting on the "Rust" movie set was loaded with a live round ... according to a warrant from the ongoing police investigation.
The warrant says an assistant director handed the gun to Alec and told the actor it was safe to use before the deadly incident ... according to the warrant obtained by the Associated Press.
The warrant says the assistant director didn't know the gun was loaded, but it doesn't mention who actually loaded the gun ... which may become the central issue.
Alec's blood-stained costume from the movie has been taken as evidence, as well as the gun that went off, plus other prop guns and ammo being used on set, according to the warrant.
The warrant says Halyna Hutchins was shot in the chest and Joel Souza was wounded as he was standing behind her.
As we reported ... Alec pulled the trigger on the gun and the accident resulted in the death of 42-year-old cinematographer Hutchins. She was struck and airlifted to a hospital, where she died. Director Souza was also hit, but has reportedly been released from the hospital.
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***The warrant says the assistant director didn’t know the gun was loaded,***
That old excuse goes way back.
https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/924904/The+Andrews+Sisters/I+Didn%27t+Know+the+Gun+Was+Loaded
I didn’t know the gun was loaded
And I’m so sorry, my friend
I didn’t know the gun was loaded
And I’ll never, never do it again
I’m with you on that thinking.
“If Alex got blood on his costume how close was he to the victims?”
Probably ran over and handled her when he saw what had happened.
There’s lots of hateful posts about him. His brother, Stephan, is a Christian that’s been after him for awhile. I’m hoping for the best and he reaches out to his brother. If there’s ever a time, it’s now.
Spreading blame among Baldwin; the Assistant Director; armorer Hannah Gutierrez; whoever was supposed to load the guns with blanks if not Gutierrez; and everyone else on the set who had access to firearms HG foolishly left on a cart, smells like the work of a lawyer. IMHO, Baldwin is guilty of negligent homicide no matter how many idiots helped.
It could have been Chekhov’s gun. Superfluous.
There is no excuse for live ammunition to be on ANY movie set. PERIOD.
Why did he point the gun at two people not in the scene?
I think they are lying.
I think Alex carried a gun, after the crew walked off the set, he became angry and enraged and add to that he was drunk and high on Coke, waved the gun around in anger and shot two people.
Yeah but liberals know everything.
An interesting aspect of the episode is the way all the actual backstage people for Perry Mason were given cameo roles in the episode as themselves (the cameraman as the cameraman, etc.), and Erle Stanley Gardner, the author of the original Perry Mason novels, himself played the judge at the episode's second trial.
“I am thinking to myself in other countries they are laughing at us twenty four hours a day and I’m thinking to myself if we were in other countries, we would all right now, all of us together, [starts to shout] all of us together would go down to Washington and we would stone Henry Hyde to death! We would stone him to death! [crowd cheers] Wait! Shut up! Shut up! No shut up! I’m not finished. We would stone Henry Hyde to death and we would go to their homes and we’d kill their wives and their children. We would kill their families.”
“....didn’t know the gun was loaded...”
Do they really use loaded guns in the production of a movie? I have a hard time believing that. Blanks should be the only ammunition used. But even blanks can hurt you if used improperly. The term used all day in this case has been, “live round” or “bullet.”
Alec Is 10x Smarter than
Everyone else.
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Premeditated,,,,?
He probably pointed it at the camera so it appears to be pointing at the film audience. The victims were likely right behind the camera. They may have stayed in the line of fire in order to do a camera effect.
Good point
A report from a Brit paper said it was a cap and ball, which would be correct for the period.
It isn’t as easy to see if one of the cylinders in a cap and ball is loaded with a ball. I’d have to look at one of my replicas to see if the end of the cylinder is covered or not.
On cap and ball, many people grease the chamber to seal it. You’ll only see black powder lube at the front of the cylinder, and not the bullet under it.
No blood on the hands or arms either
“According to the records, the gun was one of three that the film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez, had set on a cart outside the wooden structure where a scene was being acted. Assistant director Dave Halls grabbed the gun from the cart and brought it inside to Baldwin, unaware that it was loaded with live rounds”
So three people handled that gun and noone checked that it was unloaded? Hard to believe even among Hollywood liberals — a lot more of them are gun savvy than admit it. They only thing us peons shouldn’t be able to defend ourselves.
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