How do you check if a gun is loaded when someone points it at you? If someone thinks it is a good joke to fire “blanks” at you, how do you stop him and check the weapon?
punch them in the adams apple...
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.