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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Nope. Adultery is no biggie today, especially in the "entertainment community." Happens every day. Celebrity bedrooms have revolving doors. The tabloids might report it, but nobody really cares.
Doesn't make sense to murder someone just to cover up an adultery.
Maybe if he were a politician in Victorian England. But not an actor in today's Hollywood.
The excuse seems to be: "well, he was filming a movie." So what? The situation in the movie may be fake, but the gun is still real. If anything, the safety rules should be even MORE stringent. In a movie, the situation may call for one actor to point a gun at someone and fire it - a situation that may never actually happen to most gun owners. If the actor pulling the trigger doesn't know what he is doing, he should not be doing it. He is the last line of safety.
Have you ever handled a Colt Single Action Army? I have.
It loads through a loading gate - one cylinder at time.
When loaded, the only thing you can see of the cartridge is the base. So, unless there is a headstamp or a dented primer or something on the base to mark the cartridge as a dummy, you can’t tell, even by examining the chambers, if live or dummy rounds are loaded. You would have to eject each cartridge, one at a time, check it for the hole bored through the casing that marks it as a dummy, then reload it.
I don’t think we can’t really expect an actor to do that and unfortunately, that exonerates Baldwin the actor, as well as the assistant director who handed him the firearm.
I am stuck with “There were live cartridges mixed with the dummies. The armorer didn’t examine the cartridges as they were loaded and she just happened to load one in the right position to bring it into battery when Baldwin cocked the revolver.” That doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense - why were there live cartridges in the props?
Balwin the actor was practicing a fast draw; he didn’t need to pull the trigger. But Baldwin the a*****e pulled the trigger.
Ultimately I think the blame lies with the armorer, who loaded the SAA and who failed to keep control of the weapons, with Baldwin the producer who allowed these unsafe practices on his set and with Baldwin the a*****e who pulled the trigger when he didn’t need to.
These weren’t dummies. They needed the flash/ bang. They should have been blanks.
EVERY firearm is ALWAYS loaded. Even after you have cleared the weapon yourself:
Do NOT point said firearm at anything you do not want to destroy.
Know what is BEHIND your target, and keep your booger hook off the bang switch until you are about to fire.
Baldwin broke every one of these rules
Maybe they are. If the evidence for a client looks bad, it's the lawyers' job to confuse the jurors. Or in the case of a pre-trial press release, potential jurors.
This might be more of a Banacek problem.
Not according to NM statutes. One's education or lack thereof is not part of the equation of responsibility.
Great show.
Still remember the episode where they buried the armored car.
Well they got him for two more things - allowing unsafe practices on his set and pulling a trigger when he didn’t need to. He should have lowered the hammer for the next rep.
It’s someone because apparently the Assistant Director got the weapon off an unsupervised weapons cart. So she did not even hand the weapon to the AD.
She claims she loaded six dummy cartridges in it. Someone may have done something with it afterwards
I agree Adultery is a No Biggie anymore, but a Scorned Cheated on Woman?? NO FRIKKIN WAY do I want to deal with that.
Another good one was the disappearing stone statue.
Don’t forget the massive medical computer that vanished.
They were filming on location. If there was cheating going on that is where it would be happening. No way Baldwin shoots the goose that was laying the golden egg.
I recall that episode as well. Tried to find the old episodes, apparently the show wasn't on long.
I think it was in a rotation with a couple of other shows.
Banacek was well received by television critics, and as a result was picked up for a third season. However, before the third season could start, Peppard quit the show to prevent his ex-wife Elizabeth Ashley from receiving a larger percentage of his earnings as part of their divorce settlement.
17 episodes
A DA style revolver is easy to inspect. A SA western style revolver cannot be inspected that way. I call Bullshit on that explanation.
available on IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068044/
That’s not true. She did not extract anything.
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