I’ve been in the middle of an online argument on another board with a guy who works in the film industry. He’s given me every excuse in the book. I pointed out that Hollywood seems to thing they are special and have exceptions to everything, and gun handling is just another exception example.
He went ballistic on me. He wants to blame everyone else but who pulled the trigger.
Go figure.
Add me in with him because I’m not going to blame the actual shooting on the man who pulled the trigger either. I might blame him for a lot of the problems that could have led up to it. If I’m the armorer and I check, set up and declare a weapon safe to use in a scene me and the actor will be the only ones touching that weapon and that actor better not jack with the weapon or I’ll shut the scene down and recheck the weapon before we continue. If the actor so much as racks the slide, drops a magazine, opens a loading gate or hits the cylinder latch I’m shutting it down. As the armorer I’m the one held responsible for the operation and safety of that weapon.
The one held responsible for the actual shooting will be the Armorer or the AD. Baldwin may be held culpable for the overall safety of the set if decisions were made that increased the chance for accidents but not the shooting.