Posted on 11/01/2021 3:58:29 PM PDT by xxqqzz
On Oct. 21, the 42-year-old was accidentally shot by Alec Baldwin with a loaded weapon that was handed to the actor by an assistant director who mistakenly believed it was safe to use on the New Mexico set of "Rust." Responders flew the 42-year-old in a helicopter to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. Director Joel Souza was also hit and injured but has since been released from the hospital.
On Wednesday, Santa Fe County Sheriff Adan Mendoza said in a press conference that a lead projectile that was taken from Souza’s shoulder came from the F.LLI Pietta Long Colt .45 caliber revolver that Baldwin, 63, fired during a dress rehearsal for the Western at the Bonanza Creek Ranch studio. The weapon in question is described as a black revolver manufactured by an Italian company that specializes in 19th-century reproductions.
"When you’re using period guns from the Western era of the U.S., they don’t require any modification at all to fire a blank," weapons armorer Bryan W. Carpenter told Fox News. "The guns from the 1800s are all mechanically operated. Meaning you have to do something each time to make the cylinder rotate and the gun fire. In the case of Alec Baldwin's gun that he used on this set… you would have to physically cock the hammer back with your thumb each time you wanted it to fire and then pull the trigger. Then cock the hammer back and then pull the trigger each time. It’s done manually."
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Movie dummy rounds usually have holes drilled in them.
That's true, but I would never do that with a live round in the cylinder.
Thank god you aint a cop anymore
How did you remove the impacted round?
How would Baldwin know? He spends all his time blaming guns for our problems.
“look at the nose of the rounds therein, are a lot braver than I am”
It was a single action revolver. You can see the bullets in the cylinder even with the gun not pointed directly at you. And even if it is pointed at you, if the hammer is not cocked, it cannot fire. Unless you drop it on a concrete floor....
Dummy rounds have a telltale. Holes drilled in the case, missing, drilled or dimpled primers, a pellet inside that rattles when you shake it, etc. The armorer knew how to identify HER dummy rounds, and the crew should have been trained. No one checked the gun. No one. The set was a circus and Baldwin was the head clown.
possibly the person wore gloves but that just makes the loading difficult unless its a nylon or Ruber glove. either of those would have me thinking sabotage from a third party not a horrible accident.
Yes, why did it even have blanks in it if he was practicing drawing? Presumably those revolvers are not that easy to fire accidentally, but he managed by accident and trying to avoid pointing it at anyone for the bullet to go through one person’s chest and seriously injure another?
They also presumably knew that weapons were usually provided by the armorer, at least in their experience in many other productions. Therefore, why did they accept them without her there? Then the assistant director apparently called out “cold gun” despite that and without checking it.
A horrible accident is a safe being lifted by a crane and a sling breaks and it falls on a pedestrian, this is an azzhole cocking then pointing a loaded weapon and pulling the trigger at a person. That ain’t no accident. He didn’t check it, his fault, it might be involuntary, but it should be manslaughter.
how about a negligent accident. criminal in nature but not an out come the person sought.
Involuntary Manslaughter. My point thanks.
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