PHOTOS — This is the woman Alec Baldwin put in charge of firearms for his low budget film…

https://citizenfreepress.com ^ | October 23, 2021 | Posted by Kane

[1Old Pro]

After lunch AB decided to ‘practice’ his draw. Not a rehearsal.

Sounds reckless to do this and point the gun at people.

[TexasGator]

"Not really, you can see the rims from the side quite easily. The chambers are not countersunk on a Colt SAA."

We don't know if it was a SAA. Most likely:

[The Pack Knight]

The question still remains....what kind of a gun....who put the live shell in...Was it really an accident??

According to the affidavit, it was a Colt SAA. From reports, it sounds as though the live round was loaded by the armorer or someone else in the crew while they were using it for plinking off set, and was left in when it was returned to the set.

It sounds like it was an "accident" only in the broadest sense that no one intended for someone to be shot. Beyond that, it was plainly the result not only of negligence, but gross negligence.

[1Old Pro]

it sounds as though the live round was loaded by the armorer or someone else in the crew while they were using it for plinking off set, and was left in when it was returned to the set.

Who does this.

[stevio]

I blame him. He seems to know enough about guns to blame others for just owning them. Plus a “prop” gun is a real gun.

[The Pack Knight]

Someone who treats guns like toys. Based on the pictures floating around online, that includes the armorer.

[TexasGator]

"I blame him."

Her husband:

[The Pack Knight]

There's been a lot of suggestion that the actor just relies on the armorer or prop master that a gun that is handed to him isn't loaded. But it's sounding as though that really isn't the normal practice. From an AP article:

Jeffrey Wright, who has worked on projects including the James Bond franchise and the upcoming movie “The Batman,” was acting with a weapon on the set of “Westworld” when news broke of the shooting Thursday at a New Mexico ranch. “We were all pretty shocked. And it informed what we did from that moment on,” he said in an interview Sunday at the Newport Beach Film Festival.

“I don’t recall ever being handed a weapon that was not cleared in front of me — meaning chamber open, barrel shown to me, light flashed inside the barrel to make sure that it’s cleared,” Wright said. “Clearly, that was a mismanaged set.”

Actor Ray Liotta agreed with Wright that the checks on firearms are usually extensive.

“They always — that I know of — they check it so you can see,” Liotta said. “They give it to the person you’re pointing the gun at, they do it to the producer, they show whoever is there that it doesn’t work.”