Posted on 10/24/2021 8:34:41 AM PDT by conservative98
Sounds conspiratorial to me. The gun and bullets got together and decided a live round should be inserted instead of a blank.
That’s the attempt by Baldwin’s people or so it is beginning to appear. Really, he needs to be held accountable for not following protocols for firearm safety.
The last safety procedure before he began actively handling that gun was to fire six rounds into the ground-—an industry safety measure (according to John Schneider on a YouTube interview). Plus Baldwin is the producer on the film, and ultimately safety is his responsibility.
Something doesn’t smell right about this.
OH, the speculation is already flying that the union guys MAY have done it in retaliation. Or something.
Should be plenty of fingerprints on the gun...
First I’m hearing of it…
Also, Brian Laundrie has been found dead!…
I think only semi/full autos need mods to work as intended.
Yeah, we know they conspired to crimp each other together and wait for the exact right moment. That’s what they do. That’s science.
The last one handling the weapon on set for the shoot is responsible for verifying it is unloaded or only loaded with blanks and NOT pointing it at anyone with your finger on the trigger. That would be baldwin.
The Japanese have made very good ones for years. Makers include Marushin/Maruzen and MGC. Very collectible in the US. Most are made of high-grade plastic, but I think some are made of zamac or similar non-pressure-bearing metal.
They are specifically designed so that live ammunition cannot be inserted into the chamber, and they cannot be drilled out or fitted with real firearm parts to fire live ammo.
No way...Baldwin was practicing his “quick draw”...pointed and pulled the trigger.
Calling it a “prop” gun confuses the identity of the firearm. If it discharged a live round, it was obviously an operable firearm. The military has strict rules for the handling and dispensing of live ammunition and it’s not rocket science, but the rules have to be scrupulously observed. This incident validates what we have always believed about the intellect in the film industry, which is revealed in the quality of their product is especially obvious when they go off script. With few exceptions, they’re idiots.
The fact that the crew was reckless and incompetent lessens Alec Baldwin’s culpability, but it doesn’t eliminate it. He’s still an adult, he still is responsible for his actions. Which were grossly negligent.
It doesn’t matter whether someone says “cold gun” - the actor has a responsibility to check for himself. In fact, that is part of the protocol. As Reagan & Gorbachev once said to each other, “trust, but verify”!
May have been loaded? What degree of lame/ignorant reporting is this?
The rank stupidity of this jour-NO-list' reporting of the event can hardly be matched, let alone superseded.
I’ve been saying that right along.
The cops should have performed a drug and alcohol blood draw, but that is only for peasants.
Anything on a movie set is a prop. Some are real items, some are fake. The real items often end up as collector items. A chair, lamp, clothing. If it was used in a movie, it’s a prop.
Do they look EXACTLY like real guns? Are bullets visible in the cylinder of a revolver? Can you load a round into one for a scene where the good guy is reloading to shoot back at the guy wearing the black hat? If not then I would think they would have limited use in the film industry, which was the context of my question.
Hah!
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