Warrant: Alec Baldwin Was Not Aware Weapon Contained Live Round Before Shooting

The Hollywood Reporter ^ | 10/22/2021 | AP, THR Staff

[marcusmaximus]

Armorer Hanna Gutierrez, 24

[Navy Patriot]

I’m a little more strict than the average Firearms Expert, I’d have to spank her a couple of times for her violation of Firearms Safety Protocol.

[logi_cal869]

I would hope not.

[lepton]

That sounds like they were declaring that the pistol didn’t have blanks either.

[lepton]

I’ve never seen a blank. Are blanks easy to distinguish from live ammunition?

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From the back? No. From the front? Yes, they are crimped in a star-pattern where the bullet would go.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Buffalo_Blanks_Mounted_Shooting_Blanks.jpg/330px-Buffalo_Blanks_Mounted_Shooting_Blanks.jpg

[lepton]

That is a story that is told to get the actor/producer out of hot water.

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At the price of the armorer saying it going to jail? That seems unlikely.

[rlmorel]

When we talk about how laws are differently applied to different people, it seems they have given up all pretense of pretending are are just arrogantly open about it now, and while it may turn out that this is something else...it has the stench of that on it.

[rlmorel]

To be fair, I admit this is more likely to be a case of violent union pukes taking it out on scabs. Has all the hallmarks of that.

[Trillian]

Or even Eddie Eagle.

[rktman]

Still should be no live ammo on the set. Control the weapons.

[Cobra64]

Yup. Anyone handling a firearm should have intimate knowledge of the weapon, including the ammunition. Blank cartridges do not contain a projectile (bullet). Duh. If you don’t have this understanding, leave the gun on the table.

If you refer to a pistol mag as a clip, you’re a moron.

If you refer to a cartridge as a bullet, you’re a moron.

[metmom]

He should have been.

[TonyM]

Its obvious Baldwin was not trying to kill the victim, if he had he would have certainly missed.

[Jimmy Valentine]

He should have checked the weapon and in addition you never ever point a weapon at anyone. Baldwin is an egotistical jerk and probably thought he was being funny.

[eyedigress]

It cost him his world.

Teach children to be nice.

[Carriage Hill]

True dat; I can’t imagine the set armorer doing that accidentally or intentionally.

[Castlebar]

About a billion Western movies have been shot over the past 50 years along with a bunch of war movies and gangster flicks.

Many of those movies featuring hundreds of gunshots. I never heard of something like this happening before on a movie set. Why now?

UN Exerts have been predicting this would happen due to Global Warming.

And you are a racist for even asking that question.

[RckyRaCoCo]

He's a Trump hating demonrat...

Quick!

Create a new..."Look! Squirrel!"

Turn those machines back on!

Balloons! Where are the effing balloons!