Posted on 10/25/2021 12:23:05 PM PDT by conservative98
A location manager for “Rust” says at least four people were responsible for checking the weapon that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins — including gun-firing star Alec Baldwin.
“A massive mistake was made,” Stacey Mickey-Evans told Australia’s 92.5 Triple M Gold Coast.
“There are massive protocols to stop these things from happening. There are multiple checks for it,” she said Sunday.
She noted that the armorist, assistant director and the key grip are supposed to “check the gun … no matter what’s going on on set.
“And then very lastly, the actor checks the gun,” she said of Baldwin, who was also one of the movie’s executive producers.
“So there are four to five people in this stage,” she said, but “somehow there was a failure.”
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Yup. This ain’t complicated.
The Sheriff department has released some affidavits from the Director, and he says something quite different is what happened.
The Director says that Alec Baldwin was rehearsing a quick shot required for the next scene. The shot was to be at close range and pointed at the camera. They were setting up the camera while he was rehearsing.
Baldwin was violating a safety rule with that rehearsal. The Director should have called a stop order right then.
The last in a long chain of safety rule violations by many people.
They were talking about the possibility that the live round was inserted deliberately by “X”.
Baldwin said his credentials includes shoot’m up cowboy experience.
Baldwin is so anti-gun, you’d think he would check it twice...as it was, I understand he was practicing his quick draw....which means he more likely than not had done the same MANY times before.
But a person, no matter what their day job, who picks up a gun is suppose to check.
That is very basic firearm safety.
I am sorry his being a moron got someone killed but he was indeed a moron and is indeed responsible.
Someone put a live bullet in the wrong place. Who had the motive to do that?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
The camera crew and some staff apparently walked off 2 hours before the killing....protesting safety conditions.
Do you suppose someone slipped in a live round just to prove a point? I wonder what Baldwin said to them before they walked off? I’d be interested to know if I was investigating Baldwin’s sordid negligence.
I’ve worked on multiple shows and don’t recall the actor using the gun is to check if it is loaded or not. Many actors have never held or know how a gun works. Any feedback from my Hollywood/NY peeps?
That’s a problem right there. Anyone who will be handling a gun in any way should take a firearm safety course. Especially the actor who will be firing it.
It’s obvious that CA needs to pass strict regulations for guns in movies/Hollywood. Do it now!
Get gun experts on set. Or use pellet guns. They look like the real thing to me.
This www.csatf.org page can’t be found
No webpage was found for the web address: https://www.csatf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/01FIREARMS.pdf
I just clicked on that same link that you posted in your reply and got the document.
Another fine mystery of DNS propagation perhaps?
We’re talking about testing dummy rounds, not blanks.
In a perfect world.
The movie industry is dealing with two problems. In some pictures, the actors need to do inherently unsafe things, like pointing firearms at people and pretending to shoot them. Hey, it's in the script.
The other problem is that while actors are good at pretending to do things, most actors have neither training, nor skills, nor ability to safely handle firearms.
Did you ever see that video on YouTube where the guerrillas hand a loaded AK-47 to a chimpanzee? That is what Producers and Directors are facing.
Safety Bulletin #1 and related industry standard practices deal with these problems very well. It takes a long chain of failures to create an incident like what happened in the Rust production. Any one of a half dozen people could have prevented this death.
It is a management failure. In this case, it started and ended with Alec Baldwin.
I’m pretty sure they do occasionally use live fire for certain scenes, and follow protocol when they do as far as keeping everything separate. I haven’t heard that this movie had any true live fire scenes yet. I have read that supposedly some of the crew were using the weapons for recreational shooting on off time.
Freegards
“ Baldwin is 63 years old; he’s been in the ‘business’ about 40 years and in those 40 years he has participated in films that had guns. No way was he completely ‘ignorant’ on gun safety. No way. He ignored safety protocols because he is arrogant and lacks the ability to think things through or consider anyone else besides himself.”
This.
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Yep! That works.
Finally found it!
https://deadline.com/2021/10/rust-shooting-affidavit-santa-fe-sheriff-read-it-1234862010/
Just what we need to make more rational conclusions.
Thank you TG!
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