Posted on 11/04/2021 4:57:19 PM PDT by conservative98
The attorney representing the armorer at the center of the rust movie shooting investigation is claiming his client tried to get actor Alec Baldwin more training on gun safety but was denied.
This comes after reports that Hanna Gutierrez Reed had been on a podcast talking about how nervous she was when she was recently hired as the armorer on another movie.
"I was really nervous about it at first,” she said in a September interview on the podcast Voices of the West. “And I almost didn't take the job because I wasn't sure if I was ready. But doing it like it went really smoothly.”
Her attorney, Jason Bowles said his client was very experienced and knew exactly what she was doing.
"She was just expressing like any young person going into the industry getting in that she's got some nerves,” Bowles said. “But, that doesn't mean she's not capable of doing the job in a big way."
Bowles said his client was concerned about safety on the set prior to actor and producer Alec Baldwin firing a shot from a gun. The shooting killed cinemaphotographer Halyna Hutchins and injured director Joel Souza.
"She was very safety conscious,” Bowles said. “She really stressed safety to everybody on that set."
So much so Bowles said his client was sounding the alarm.
"She repeatedly asked for more training days to train the actors in the use of firearms, firearms safety,” Bowles said. “She had one training day with eight or nine people at once, and that's not ideal to train eight or nine people at the same time. She did have one session with Alec Baldwin for approximately 30 minutes. She had asked for another session with him. But the way these things work, they just didn't give it to her."
(Excerpt) Read more at koat.com ...
Definitely needs work.
In 1880s Kansas, outlaw Harland Rust rescues his thirteen-year-old grandson Lucas, who has been sentenced to hang for murder after an accidental shooting. Now fugitives, the pair have to outrun U.S. Marshal Wood Helm and bounty hunter Fenton “Preacher” Lang.
daddy must be sooo proud...
It would be no defense at all. Such a scenario requires that she provide an opportunity for somebody to tamper with the weapon between the time she approved it and the moment when it was fired by Baldwin. She needed to be in the presence of the gun for all the time it was out of her possession.
Yeah, she’s screwed. And not in a good way.
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