Huh, Are you like some crazy Lin Wood lawyer? You need to respond to my pointing out NM law on negligent discharge and homicide.
Do you even know what extenuating circumstances is. You can do things on a movie set you can’t do in normal life I listed one. Go point a gun at some with blanks pull the trigger. Enjoy your stay in lock up. Go on set as an actor do the same thing go enjoy beers and pizza later.
What you lack is there must be criminal negligence to charge someone. That is not present here. The responsibility for ensuring a cold gun is the armors not the actor. While tragic this falls on the armor who loaded live rounds into a prop gun and then declared it a cold gun. There is no way for the actor to know nor should they be expected to know if a weapons cold. Blanks and real rounds look familiar to un trained eyes that’s why you have trained professionals on set. He won’t be charged criminally that.much you.can bank on there is no precedence for it. Civil cases take no grand jury so yeah sue away but it’s going to be hard to convince a jury that he was personally negligent when it is not his responsibility to verify he was holding a cold gun. In addition that he was following detailed instructions on where and how to point the weapon and how to actuate the hammer. There would be a reasonable expectation that with you.finger off the trigger that a gun will not fire while manipulating the hammer Th at holds true for 99.9% of all firearms and absolutely would be a factor in a civil case. Like I said I would be surprised if the 20 something armor knew that a single action revolver from the 1860 will fire just by manipulating the hammer. Sorry he won’t be charged let alone convicted. Good day.