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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Memories of my hunter safety course many years ago: instructor passed around a shotgun for all to examine for whatever ostensible purpose; the collective "oh $#!^" was palpable when, after 10+ handled it, I opened the chamber and out popped a dummy round. (Saw that lesson coming the moment he handed it to the first student.)
“May have”??? Someone?
She had a responsibility, as the set armorer, to ensure that the only hands that gun was in were either the actor’s, or hers only. No go-betweens. That was IMO the biggest fail of the whole situation.
[[”Hannah did everything in her power to ensure a safe set.” — The facts say otherwise]]
Exactly, and that is the bottom line... she obviously did NOT do everything in her power to ensure safe conditions, and she shou,should, never be a,loved in a other amoror position again for complete ineptitude. She made a terrible terrible decision to NOT check a gun she apparently previously checked some time before, and now a woman is dead because of Hannah’s reckless negligence.
She screwed up. The other fella screwed up, and Baldwin real,y screwed up but ignoring rules of gun use onset, and for not chec,ing the gun one last time (and in my opinion, for not showing the camera person the gun and ammo too or have them inspect the gun too)
Stage guns are not toys. There are no do-overs. Noone gets to respawn and start again. Protocol was broken over and over in this case, and someone has died as a result. And it’s shameful that the ones invo,involved, are trying to blame others.
It was, literally, her job to prevent such a thing.
Exactly. Good,point.
With present day sound effect capability there is NEVER a need for an actual gun shot on ANY scene set.
Nonetheless, with all his alleged “not gun ignorant”, he didn’t check it when he picked it up. Doesn’t matter about any conspiracy of “the gun was positioned to fire”. He didn’t check. It’s a simple single-action revolver: pick it up, open the cylinder, check each chamber. He broke ALL the rules. Zero excuses.
The media said that but we don’t know that for certain. She’s not stupid.
Exactly right.”Spinning the cylinder” is only going to show presence or absence of “something”, not what kind of ammo it is. You’d think her lawyers would be smarter than this.
Knew someone who kept a .22 handy for pest control, and he said ‘don’t worry, it’s a.ways unloaded in the house to someone who asked if they could see it. The person noticed a live round in the chamber, and showed it to the fella. He was dumbfounded. He later learned his brother-in-law had used the gun to shoot a squirrel when the owner wasn’t there, and had forgotten to unload the gun.
The obvious lesson is “doesn’t matter if someone thinks the gun is unloaded, always always treat them as if they are loaded, people’s, lives may depend on it.
Thankfully one ha depicted picked up in the meantime whomwoildnt have thought to check the chamber firs.t
Well, apparently, they do just “go off”, according to multiple stories trying to cover for Arec’s carelessness.
“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.”
????
I’ve read it a few times.
Was this a Jen Psaki statement?
Yes, I think it’s a pretty good supposition that someone put a bullet into the gun...
We’re dealing with a regular Sherlock Holmes here.
The union walking out and the shooting happening on the same day is an awfully big coincidence.
Hmmmm, that’s intriguing. Whoever put the bullet(bullets?)in there may have put it in a random chamber of the cylinder. With the cylinder being rotated between the loading and the shooting of the scene, it would have been nearly impossible to assure that a live round(if only one) were struck on the first trigger pull. The cylinder would have rolled over one chamber upon cocking. Disgruntled union member setting up a Rusdisn roulette scenario? I wonder how many times the gun was meant to be fired in that scene.
She had two different to run back and forth to do. Baldwin was too cheap and gave gave her multiple jobs. The first armorer refused because it would be too dangerous being Assistant to the Director and watching the guns at the same time.
“What if I’m wrong” is a useful personal axiom.
I agree with you absolutely.
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