Armorer Hanna Gutierrez, 24
Posted on 10/22/2021 6:52:48 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
An assistant director unwittingly handed Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use in the moments before the actor fatally shot a cinematographer, court records released Friday show.
“Cold gun,” the assistant director announced, according to a search warrant filed in a Santa Fe court.
Instead, the gun was loaded with live rounds, and when Baldwin pulled the trigger Thursday on the set of a Western, he killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
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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, a detective wrote in the search warrant application.
The film’s script supervisor, Mamie Mitchell, said she was standing next to Hutchins when she was shot.
“I ran out and called 911 and said ‘Bring everybody, send everybody, ” Mitchell told The Associated Press. “This woman is gone at the beginning of her career. She was an extraordinary, rare, very rare woman.”
Mitchell said she and other crew members were attending a private memorial service Friday night in Santa Fe.
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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.
I would hope not.
That sounds like they were declaring that the pistol didn’t have blanks either.
I’ve never seen a blank. Are blanks easy to distinguish from live ammunition?
That is a story that is told to get the actor/producer out of hot water.
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.
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.
Or even Eddie Eagle.
Still should be no live ammo on the set. Control the weapons.
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.
He should have been.
Its obvious Baldwin was not trying to kill the victim, if he had he would have certainly missed.
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.
It cost him his world.
Teach children to be nice.
True dat; I can’t imagine the set armorer doing that accidentally or intentionally.
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.
Quick!
Create a new..."Look! Squirrel!"
Turn those machines back on!
Balloons! Where are the effing balloons!
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