This is exactly why the armoror (a 24-year old with no experience who may have been hired due to nepotism) should have opened the gun to check. And why Baldwin (who was a producer, not just an actor following orders) should have checked.
And also why you never point a gun at anyone - cheat the angles for movies. And don’t pull the trigger unless you mean to kill whatever you are aiming it. And, and and, ....
ANOTHER story pushed out to TMZ by Baldwin’s PR team.
And it is utterly unprofessional for guns to be used as props to be checked out to use for recreational shooting.
Once part of the film production, they should be sequestered under the full control of the armorer except when in use.
Any police department rangemaster from a decent sized department could have handled the task. But they had to fluff the resume of a 24 year old girl who wanted to take selfies.
I can’t believe this. They don’t have the prop guns under lock and key and under the control of the armorer? Is that laxity SOP in the industry?
“Head Gun Handler Had Recent Self-Doubts ... New On the Job”
https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/23/alec-baldwin-rust-gun-accident-armorer-head-handler/
yet another el cheapo dilettante hired by producer Alec Baldwin to save money on a low-budget production ... should be sufficient grounds for a slam-dun multi-million dollars civil lawsuit ...
Perhaps INSTEAD of condemning guns and gun owners, Alec Baldwin should have learned BASIC gun safety! The REALITY is that he pointed a loaded gun at a person and PULLED THE TRIGGER! That is NO “misfire”, the firearm WORKED AS DESIGNED. HE failed to CHECK to ENSURE that it was unloaded. I’ll bet he did not even know HOW to CLEAR it.