'Rust' armorer breaks silence, doesn't take any responsibility for Alec Baldwin's fatal shot

wnd.com ^ | 10/31/2021 1107 hrs EDT | Amy Liebing

[absalom01]

“she loaded the gun”

That has not been established.

The one thing that we do know, and which is undisputed, is that Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger and killed a woman. This is all spin by the DA as a way to avoid charging Baldwin.

[mylife]

She is so screwed.

[rktman]

Uh, no one on here should be aiming a gun at anything they don’t intend to destroy.

[Fai Mao]

The revolver used paper cartridges. It was a cap and ball revolver.

[Sacajaweau]

Thanks for correcting me.

[GeorgiaDawg32]

Taking it out of the cylinder is far different than picking it up but I get the point. Someone supposedly removed the casing.

[Pollard]

“I think loading blanks is, like, the scariest thing to me because I was like, ‘oh, I don’t know anything about it,’ but, you know, he taught me that, and eventually by the time I was, like, trying to figure out how to make a specific blank go when you want it to rather than it hitting, like, the empty cylinders and everything — I figured that out on my own.”

https://lawandcrime.com/celebrity/armorer-in-film-set-shooting-wanted-to-show-the-world-that-guns-are-awesome-but-said-recently-that-loading-blanks-is-like-the-scariest-thing/

Like, omg

[realcleanguy]

Silly guns, they just up and shoot people on demand

[Sacajaweau]

There was one lady over Hannah...I’ll go back and get her name. She’s disappeared from the rhetoric.

[Blue Highway]

The weird thing is her father is supposedly a renowned armorer in Hollywood. Apparently he didn’t train her properly though.

[daku]

It is clearly (to me) this girls fault .
The crew members who used the weapon to go plink with live rounds are a factor, baldwins’ carelessness is also a factor.
The way to deal with these dangers is to hire a professional armorer to make sure these idiots do not kill each other.

[simpson96]

"We don't know how those live rounds got there," she told CNN.

Nevertheless, the buck stops with you, honey.

[Blue Highway]

I wonder if the investigation is doing a timeline of the gun through custody. If she did check it and Arec Barwin didn’t check it in front of her, it would likely point to him loading the ammo. Same question vice versa, if Arec will testify that the armorer didn’t check the gun in front of him to verify no live rounds were in the chamber or any rounds at all were loaded.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Arec Bardwin is home free.

Dave is headed for the Big House.

[hanamizu]

It was her job to know.
Yeah, Baldwin fired the shot, but she loaded the gun.

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Did she load the gun? If so, she bears responsibility, but then again Baldwin pointed the gun at people and pulled the trigger. Why would there need to be any blank rounds loaded for a rehearsal?

[Manly Warrior]

No, per the SO and other reports it is a Pietta 1873. A modern Italian made 45 colt SA revolver copy. Shoots regular 45 colt/long Colt cartridges, smokeless or BP.

[Blue Highway]

That’s pretty vague that “someone” handed the gun to Alec. Hope the investigation identifies who this “someone” is. Is there a proper chain of custody once the armorer checks the gun that is always followed strictly?

[Billthedrill]

"We don't know how those live rounds got there," she told CNN. "And I think that that will probably end up being kind of the linchpin for whether a decision is made about charges."

No wonder Baldwin has turned into Chatty Cathy all of a sudden. His lawyers have told him he's skating. What this emphasis means is that the person who loaded the gun is the only one who will be charged, if that is ever determined. Not the shooter. And yes, that is very wrong.

[Pollard]

Gonna let the girl shoot while leaning back like that?

Nicholas Cage movie, The Old Way; The key grip points to low budgets as to why someone so inexperienced was put in such an important role. 'The tragedy is it boils down to the producers,' he said.

Just like the Baldwin set. Save money by driving out the Union people and bring in some green people. Probably had them lined up already. Net worth of many millions but trying to save a few thousand.

[Sacajaweau]

I disagree. The prop master handled the guns as did Halls. It sounds like she never even handled the guns that day.