Posted on 10/25/2021 9:53:32 AM PDT by JonPreston
If Baldwin's Crew were in charge of guns in the 1950s, the likelihood of any of my boyhood heroes listed below would have been in extreme jeopardy. And don't start me on the Indians!
John Wayne, Audie Murphy, Tom Mix (don't even go there!), Gene Autry, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Lash LaRue the Durango Kid, the Lone Ranger, Gene Autry, James Arness.
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Am I the only one who thinks that maybe Baldwin was set up by someone on the crew, who was trying to make a point about gun safety or something? I just can’t figure out why they would have live ammo anywhere around the set.
I always thought these stage guns were non-operable, except for effect.
Paladin would have to rename his business card.
If he didn’t personally check his weapon, that’s on him.
Great show!
Actually if you look up the old days of Hollywood using guns it’s kinda crazy. I think by the 50s they’d switched to blanks. But at one point they were firing live round “aimed” to miss. If you watch any of those 30s gangster movies and you see squibs hitting a wall those aren’t squibs.
One of few TV westerns I like.
I was never that big on them. Preferred movies.
Yep, Baldwin was set up, .... .... .... by Baldwin.
Absolutely. The guy operating the trigger should assume it's dangerous until he confirms for himself that it's not.
Additionally, they say that the prop person just grabbed the gun, yelled "cold gun" (meaning safe) and handed it to Baldwin. Prop guy didn't check. He just sort of "deemed it safe".
Really lax safety protocols all around. As Producer, that is also on Baldwin.
It’s also kind of funny watching H&I Untouchables Sunday bumper where Bruce Gordon does the surprise with the tommy gun and mirror but no holes in the wall behind it.
Apparently the firearm used by Baldwin was also used for plinking off site by some of the crew. Also there was live ammunition around the set. Insane.
It wasn’t a “prop gun”. It was a fully functional real gun. “Prop gun” is being used to try to make it look better for Baldwin and the crew.
Ultimately Baldwin was responsible to see that the gun he held had only blank rounds. Since it was likely a revolver and since it was reported to be a “44” probably a 44-40. The movie is set in the 1880s so it would not be an automatic. Nothing is easier to look at and see if all the rounds are blanks that a revolver.
You still don’t point a gun at anyone. We shall see if the LEs in New Mexico are as likely to give movie people a pass as the cops in California.
We need to restore firearms training including safety and shooting spurts to high schools
The pistol in question was one of three that the AD could have chosen. Someone could have been setting up a random “accident.” I don’t know how often the script calls for Baldwin’s character to fire a gun. Or if his is the only character using those guns. Could be sabotaging the production.
I think “prop gun” is being used because the info coming from the set is all in “set speak” and nobody in the press is bothering to understand the words. On set anything an actor touches is a prop, as opposed to “set decoration” which won’t be touched.
Anybody know of a prop 'bow&arrow'?
I wouldn’t put it past them. Whenever a mass shooting occurs the Karens from Mom’s Demand Action, the little 💩 s from March for our Lives and the other opportunistic ghouls love to exploit the victims to advance the agenda. Gotta break some eggs to make an omelette 🤬😖🤬
Maybe one of the union guys loaded it. And left....
Just imagine the body count if Baldwin and his crew had worked on the set of "The Rifleman."
The ATF and OSHA are currently investigating the Alec Baldwin film set.
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