Production crew walked off Alec Baldwin movie set hours before shooting in row over conditions and were replaced 'on the fly' by locals: Workers feared for gun safety after 'TWO misfires' days before Baldwin accidentally shot dead cinematographer

Daily Mail ^ | 10/22/2021 | Jennifer Smith

[marcusmaximus]

The crew of Alec Baldwin's movie set were already concerned about gun safety before he accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, and they had walked off the set hours before she was killed, after they complained about long hours, shoddy conditions and two other incidents involving the 'misfire' of weapons.

The workers had been complaining about the fact they had to stay overnight in Albuquerque - an hour's drive from the set - and not Sante Fe because production wouldn't pay for their hotels, according to sources cited by The Los Angeles Times and multiple social media posts by film and TV insiders.

When they turned up to set to clear their things on Thursday, they found they'd been replaced by locals.

It begs the question of who those local workers were, what their training was and to what extent did they check the weapon before handing it to Baldwin, suspected to have possibly been loaded with a live round.

Deadline also cites an unnamed source who said a gun had gone off 'in a cabin' while someone was holding it in a cabin.

'A gun had two misfires in a closed cabin. They just fired loud pops – a person was just holding it in their hands and it went off,' they said.

[MayflowerMadam]

“There some serious negligence involved.”

And it sounds like not just one person or group was at fault. A “perfect storm” of incidents.

[onemiddleamerican]

The article says there was a .44 caliber bullet in the victim's spine.

I had originally read the story that way also, but on second read I realized that was referring to the on-set shooting of Brandon Lee.

[Army Air Corps]

I've never loaded or fired a blank before.

Blanks are visibly different from a live round. The average person can spot the difference at a glance.

[HP8753]

Liberals and guns are always a bad mix.
Idiots with superiority complexes handling dangerous weapons is a disaster waiting to happen.

[Louis Foxwell]

A woman is dead, avoidably. Yes. It is criminal.

[Tunehead54]

"Live round in a gun 6 hours after disgruntled workers walk off the set. Interesting
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Weird isn’t it."

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Unions have been known to remind their employers why they should be employing them. Nice movie you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

Or so I've read. ;-)

[one guy in new jersey]

Doubtfire