Coincidentally, my family member was shooting a western movie near there and said it’s the norm to show the other actors the weapon is definitely unloaded prior to filming the scene out of safety and as a professional courtesy.
Yup. All these wannabe “experts” around here should take firearms training from firearms professionals. Half of these clowns don’t know the difference between a cartridge and a bullet.
I work occasionally as an armorer for live theater. Last job was Oklahoma. Actors who don’t need to shoot get a rubber gun. Guns that fire blanks have a blocked barrel with a vent out the side of the barrel. The guns are loaded with the exact number of blanks to be fired and I hand a weapon to the actor before the scene and retrieve it after, otherwise it is locked in my chest. I won’t blame Baldwin yet but it is clear to me that some egregious negligence went on there.