In other words, it was not a cap and ball revolver that some here have tried to claim. It was a real antique replica revolver loaded with live ammunition. It was handled by at least three people, including Baldwin, before the fatal shooting.
In other words, it was not a cap and ball revolver that some here have tried to claim. It was a real antique replica revolver loaded with live ammunition. It was handled by at least three people, including Baldwin, before the fatal shooting.
It is a cap and ball that has been “converted” to cartridge use. Looks like a Colt dragoon.
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The gun aimed and fired itself?
According to a search warrant, Gutierrez-Reed told authorities she had checked the pistol used by Baldwin before putting it on the prop table.
and
The warrant says she felt the gun was ready for use. The assistant director David Halls told a different story. Halls is the person who took the gun off the prop table and handed it to Baldwin.
Yet, we are also told:
He admitted not fully checking all the rounds as Gutierrez-Reed passed it to him.
This could just be sloppy reporting, but chain of custody is important. Was the gun left on the prop table where the AD picked it up, or did the armorer hand it to him? I suspect the former.
https://radaronline.com/p/alec-baldwin-shooting-rust-armor-hannah-gutierrez-reed-denies-negligence-sheriff/
So someone got shot and the sheriff declares it was by a live bullet. Geez, what else good have have been?
2. If, as has been alleged, that some people on the site used the guns that are also used on the movie for live fire, that would a huge violation of safety and culpable negligence. It is interesting that they were using weapons that were capable of loading live ammunition, since Hollywood guns usually have "short chambers" to prevent live ammo from being chambered.
3. Revolvers are very easy to examine if their cylinders loaded with live ammo: all anyone had to do was look at the face of the cylinder (with the barrle pointed away from your face) with the hammer at half-cock to see if there were any bulleted cartridges in the cylinder.
4. Has anyone considered the likelihood that as disgruntled, just-fired union technician intentionally loaded that pistol and placed it into the cart tp "get even"?
Is this a test?
All three are guilty to varying degrees. Baldwin is the most culpable as both the boss and the asshat that was either too stupid or lazy to bother to pop out the cylinder to inspect the rounds in the chambers.
I wonder if the police tested Baldwin for drugs and/or alcohol? A dime to a dollar that they did it.
Not an “accidental fatal shooting”, but was negligent homicide, either.
The gun did not fire the shot. Baldwin fired the shot. Guns are inanimate objects unable to fire themselves.
Those damn live bullets. They just jump out of a gun and zoom across the room by themselves.
https://youtu.be/Xii9_oWQ7HY
“live bullet”...really? None of the ammunition I have ever owned, seen, or used has been “live.” All have been inert, never live, as in “alive.” Munitions are things. They do not live. As Rush frequently said, “Words mean things.”
isn’t the chain of custody in a sense broken between the armorer and the AD?
to me, that illustrates (1) lax procedures or lax enforcement of good procedures, (2) a theoretical possibility that someone unknown (ie, a saboteur) could have loaded the gun with a live round while the gun was on the tray, and (3) there might not be much chance of pinning either civil or criminal blame on the armorer (even if she is “guilty” of being a ditz and allowing a live round to sneak in among dummy rounds).
it also sounds possible that no one present knew how to unload and load this particular gun, which does not have the more familiar swing out cylinder, and the people present did not want to be embarrassed in front of the crew, and stop the rehearsal to fetch the armorer.