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Alec Baldwin’s Rust Armourer Speaks Out For The First Time Following Fatal Shooting Incident
Unilad ^ | October 29, 2021 | POPPY BILDERBECK

Posted on 10/29/2021 4:17:21 AM PDT by xxqqzz

For the first time since Alec Baldwin accidentally shot one crew member and injured another while filming for Rust, the armourer for the film has spoken out.

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins passed away on Thursday, October 21, as a result of the incident. The film’s director, Joel Souza was also injured.

Baldwin had not known the gun had live ammunition in it, however the 63-year-old has been subject to extreme online abuse in the wake of the incident.

The set’s armourer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, has now spoken out about the tragedy.

Jason Bowles and Robert Gorence, Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers said safety was her ‘number one priority on set’ and that she wanted to take the opportunity to ‘address some untruths’, Metro reports.

They said:

Ultimately this set would never have been compromised if live ammo were not introduced. Hannah had no idea where the live rounds came from.

Hannah and the prop master gained control over the guns and she never witnesses anyone shoot live rounds with these guns and nor would she permit that. They were locked up every night and at lunch and there’s no way a single one of them was unaccounted for or being shot by crew members.

(Excerpt) Read more at unilad.co.uk ...


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To: EEGator

An iron frame Henry. Nice! A bit too much gun for the holder it seems


81 posted on 10/29/2021 7:28:14 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: xxqqzz

“...shot one crew member and injured another...”

Oh, so they both survived? Another reprobate pretending to be a journalist. How about “...killed one crew member and winged another...” :-)


82 posted on 10/29/2021 7:31:21 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: xxqqzz
I'm sure someone has already said it. Best thing she can do is keep her mouth shut.

For obvious reasons...

83 posted on 10/29/2021 7:32:59 AM PDT by OKSooner (6uild 6ack 6etter)
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To: xxqqzz

Her and AD shoulda checked guns on cart before they were handed to idiot lines reader


84 posted on 10/29/2021 7:35:30 AM PDT by wardaddy (Too many uninformed ..and scolds here )
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To: vigilante2

“She’s just the fall guy, Baldwin knew what he was doing”

After Baldwin killed an on-set employee years ago, it would make the jury wonder how/why it’d happen again!


85 posted on 10/29/2021 7:35:45 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: xxqqzz

I read somewhere that some of the film crew on their off time would practice shooting the prop guns with live ammo.


86 posted on 10/29/2021 7:41:49 AM PDT by Rappini (Compromise has its place. It's called second.)
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To: Travis McGee

Dude, she’s what, 24?

I had been out of the US Navy 2 years at the age of 24, and I can guaran-damn-tee you I have plenty of stupid looking pictures of me and my friends at that age.

These pictures of her are irrelevant.


87 posted on 10/29/2021 7:42:33 AM PDT by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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To: xxqqzz
To clarify for Freepers who hate anything past a headline glance

This is a statement written by and submitted by her attorneys

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88 posted on 10/29/2021 7:43:59 AM PDT by wardaddy (Too many uninformed ..and scolds here )
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To: SirFishalot

That was an interesting video. Thanks.


89 posted on 10/29/2021 7:53:24 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: Vaquero
Any round that was loaded for nefarious purposes will likely have no prints.

Perhaps some lint from the cloth.

90 posted on 10/29/2021 7:54:42 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Vaquero

“Okay, put your feet close together. Now lean way back to be behind your center of gravity...perfect.”


91 posted on 10/29/2021 7:55:59 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: chaosagent

Any person who is going to handle a firearm should receive nominal firearms training prior to handling. It doesn’t take long, contains a lot of useful information and just might save someone’s life.


92 posted on 10/29/2021 8:03:06 AM PDT by No Party Affiliation
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To: DoodleDawg
As the armourer, she and the prop master had one job - make sure the prop was safe. They blew it and someone died.

This is the sort of weak reasoning and conclusion jumping that I have come to expect from you.

Completely ignored by you is the possibility that some Union troublemaker deliberately loaded live rounds into a checked gun.

Movie set rules require the prop master to hand the guns to actors, not the assistant director. That alone is a violation. The fact that the AD and Baldwin didn't verify the gun was loaded was another violation.

I don't know if the Prop Master and Armorer failed in their jobs. They may have, but I will not immediately jump to that conclusion.

93 posted on 10/29/2021 8:51:38 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Vaquero
Did anyone take prints from the fired rounds empty case?

I have read that the armorer immediately removed the bullets thereby possibly destroying that potential evidence.

94 posted on 10/29/2021 8:53:11 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Travis McGee
As silly appearing as this woman may appear to be, I find it hard to believe that she doesn't know the difference between a live round and a blank.

I put no credibility to the idea that she may have put live rounds into this gun accidentally.

95 posted on 10/29/2021 8:55:42 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
Completely ignored by you is the possibility that some Union troublemaker deliberately loaded live rounds into a checked gun.

And lack of any evidence doesn't stop you from stumbling to that conclusion. The same sort of idiotic reasoning I've come to expect from you.

96 posted on 10/29/2021 9:06:11 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Alex Baldwin had one job: do not shoot and kill someone. He blew it, and someone died.


97 posted on 10/29/2021 9:07:04 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman.)
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To: Leaning Right
In general, union folks are way more competent than hires right off the street. The union folks have the experience, and some level of training.

So you are suggesting that a non union person would not know the difference between a live round and a blank?


98 posted on 10/29/2021 9:07:24 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DoodleDawg
And lack of any evidence doesn't stop you from stumbling to that conclusion.

Well firstly it's not a conclusion, and secondly there is evidence to support the theory that this may have been a Union member's effort to f*** with non union members being used on the set.

The same sort of idiotic reasoning I've come to expect from you.

If you can't follow the reasoning, it must certainly appear to be "magic" to you.

99 posted on 10/29/2021 9:17:25 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Moltke
You are so right there.

I could see this conversation:

BALDWIN: Okay. The unions are doing what they always do, lying, grifting, overcharging, dragging their feet, slowing things down deliberately. We have to kick them out. If we do, though, how can we continue to film? What if we get audited on things like safety and firearm handling, and...

ASSISTANT: Don't worry about that. I know this girl who owns and shoots guns, she has taken all the gun safety courses, she can do this for us at a quarter the salary. Hell, she'll do it for free just to get on the set.

BALDWIN: Does she have any experience?

ASSISTANT: She helped out on a set once, showing the actors how to aim in exchange for their autographs and selfies with them...

BALDWIN: Okay! Let's do it!

100 posted on 10/29/2021 9:27:46 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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