You think she put live rounds in the gun instead of blanks?
I think someone “borrowed” the gun to play with it, and left 1 live round in it when they returned it. Then I think the armorer picked up the gun, didn’t check it fully, assumed it was empty, and started putting dummy rounds in it from her full stash. I think she didn’t keep count and didn’t notice that she only put 5 dummies in.
So, yes, I think Baldwin may have only fired once, but Hutchins lost her involuntary game of Russian Roulette. This type of accident is extremely rare on film sets, so it’s very likely that a long chain of unlikely events had to happen to make this tragedy happen.
I think the young woman’s social media profile suggests she doesn’t have a rigorous enough intellect to even be trusted to fill your order correctly at a McDonald’s drive-thru.
The point is nobody was in charge of safety.
She certainly was not.
This would be the same as having her in charge of all of the anesthesia in an operating room, or having her in charge of a large 4th of July fireworks operation.
Disaster is almost a certain result when a brain-damaged child is put in charge of an operation that calls for a super-alert safety-obsessed experienced, trained and practiced adult expert.
The fact that the same fatal working revolver was used for live-ammo plinking a few hours before the death, on a set where this chick was nominally in charge, tells you all you need to know.
There was NO actual safety oversight on set.