Posted on 10/25/2021 6:59:51 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
As best I can tell it was a 1850’s pistol, which means it was a single action black power revolver with a ball as it’s bullet. Now it could have been an accidental discharge and Baldwin never squeezed the trigger. Not likely, but maybe. But to get a single action revolver to fire you have to do two things. First you have to cock the hammer and then you have to squeeze the trigger. Cocking the hammer was a very bad move by Baldwin if in fact that is what happened.
I wonder why it is so difficult to get an accurate account of how this terrible accident happened.
Re caliber, I’ve heard 40 and 45 but nothing definitive.
Still wondering why real firearms with live ammo are by used idiot actors in making movies. I can understand stun men or doubles doing it but idiots like Baldwin? No freakin way.
Thank you for making that point. If you don't know squat about firearms then you should never take possession of one.
I understand the bullet passed through the woman and struck a man behind her.
Baldwin is a psychopath. A quick search of his previous scandals show an arrest/street fight/public conflict every year or two.
Him hold a nerf-gun on set would make me flee. I wonder if the two people shot knew he was handling a pistol. That’s why I was curious how close he was.
I just watched. Great interview.
I found this quote in the below article:
“Detective Cano said that after Mr. Baldwin fatally shot Ms. Hutchins, the cinematographer, and wounded Joel Souza, the film’s director, Ms. Gutierrez took the spent casing out of the gun used in the shooting and later handed the gun to sheriff’s deputies.”
There appears to be shenanigans going on in the shooting of “Rust,” that ironically is “a film about a 19th-century accidental killing and its aftermath.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/23/us/alec-baldwin-rust-shooting.html
They may be “prop” guns while on the film set, but they don’t stop being real guns.
BTW, an analogy: if I give you the keys to my car and down the road the cops stop you for bald tyres, YOU will be the person to get the first ticket; you were driving it, you are responsible for it at that moment.
An SJW lesbian lawyer who is now DA and ran on a platform of restorative justice. In other words, a District Attorney who believes certain people shouldn't be sent to jail.
Baldwin has nothing to fear. I'll be surprised if he's even charged.
>> OTOH, any actor that handles a gun is required to have training on that gun first.
I read recently in a fictional book by Anthony Horowitz, who also writes screenplays (Foyle’s War), that in the UK, those props people who deal with firearms have to undergo special training, pass a test, and be licensed (or some similar word).
Whether or not this is the case there, it certainly makes a whooping amount of sense and it is hard to believe it hasn’t happened here.
It hasn’t been polite to call adult females “girls” for decades now.
It hasn’t been polite to call adult females “girls” for decades now.
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Definition of a girl : “young, immature woman”.
So you’re saying that doesn’t fit this “GIRL” to a tee?
An article is like, the, a, an.
Short and easy to post or read,.
Leaves lots of time for comments.
Economy feature for Freepers.
Thanks! Besides being knowledgeable and experienced on the subject he seems like are really good down to earth guy.
Everyone I’ve seen discussing this incident and using the word ‘prop’ is misunderstanding the word as it’s meant in the theater arts.
It’s just short for ‘property’, and means an item used to sustain and carry forward the illusion and action.
It doesn’t mean ‘fake’ or ‘unreal’. A chair or a wine glass can be a ‘prop’.
The guns in realistic movies are generally real guns. I kind of agree with the commentators who have suggested that with today’s technologies and facility to create illusion on screen, they shouldn’t even have to use real guns; and that may be a change that results from this story.
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