Posted on 11/04/2021 9:51:54 AM PDT by conservative98
(AP) — The woman in charge of weapons on the movie set where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins said Wednesday night that she had inspected the gun Baldwin shot but doesn’t know how a live bullet ended up inside.
“Who put those in there and why is the central question,” Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the armorer for the movie “Rust” said in a statement issued by one of her lawyers, Jason Bowles of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
“Hannah kept guns locked up, including throughout lunch on the day in question (Oct. 21), and she instructed her department to watch the cart containing the guns when she was pulled away for her other duties or on a lunch break.”
The statement goes on to say that “Hannah did everything in her power to ensure a safe set. She inspected the rounds that she loaded into the firearms that day. She always inspected the rounds.”
The statement adds that she inspected the rounds before handing the firearm to assistant director David Halls “by spinning the cylinder and showing him all of the rounds and then handing him the firearm.”
“No one could have anticipated or thought that someone would introduce live rounds into this set,” Gutierrez Reed’s statement said.
The statement also noted that “she did firearms training for the actors as well as Mr. Baldwin, she fought for more training days and she regularly emphasized to never point a firearm at a person.”
On Oct. 29, attorneys for Hannah Gutierrez-Reed said she doesn’t know where the live rounds found there came from and blamed producers for unsafe working conditions.
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I have heard that sometimes dummie bullets actually look like real ones. If true....they are idiots.
I looked up dummy rounds on the website of what appeared to be a major theatrical supply company. They looked like dummies, not at all like live ammo.
So what is this locked cart made of? Is it like a rolling safe or just a plastic file cabinet?
That may be the key to putting Baldwin as a person (and not just him as a producer) liable. He might go to trial or settle very lucratively because of that one point:
Mr Baldwin, why did you point the gun at people and pull the trigger at rehearsal?
Amazing conclusion. I would never have suspected a round in a weapon was put there by someone.
I would say most, maybe even all. Unless they are plastic, colored or have other obvious tells.
I was surprised to find the manufacturer saying he used “only a pellet inside”, but he is the second source I’ve heard say this about dummy rounds used in film.
“Personally, I don’t think that is a good thing that the primer is being dented when a round is chambered.”
Military has had many rifles with such and many are in the hands of civilians.
How many slam-fires have. there been?
Yeah, lots of finger pointing and conflicting stories right now. Add in uninformed media and lawyers sowing disinformation, and I guess we won’t know what really happened for some time.
Multiple staff who’ve worked for decades on set describe how the gun is never pointed at a human being and ballistic shields are used. Alec Baldwin not only violated Col. Cooper’s firearms safety rules, he violated published firearm handling rules on movie sets.
This is why Baldwin may be sued for wrongful death personally under all gun AND filming rules. Gross negligence.
“I have heard that sometimes dummie bullets actually look like real ones. If true....they are idiots.”
Dummy rounds contain real bullets>
Baldwin the producer and Baldwin the a*****e are absolutely both responsible for Hutchins’ death. Baldwin the producer is responsible because he is responsible for his people and the safety of the set, and Baldwin the a*****e is responsible because he pointed the firearm where it should not have been pointed and pulled the trigger when it should not have been pulled.
Maybe Baldwin loaded it.
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