I could seat a bullet in a case with a spent primer and no powder that would look real, if you didn’t look at the primer, but why? How many movies do you see close ups of ammunition, other than in bandoliers or cartridge belts? They can edit scenes and do cutaways so you would never need to do a ‘loading‘ scene and a shooting scene in the same take. The armorer should have been all over these issues. And she should have schooled the actors on some basic firearms safety if there were operable firearms on the set. Her job was 1) safety, and 2) realism, in that order. Claiming she didn’t know there was live ammo on the set, or that she didn’t know the revolver was loaded, are admissions of dereliction of her responsibility.
A young girl, thrilled to be in show business, working for reputedly the meanest man in the industry, others such as Hall much older and with years of experience and you expect her to set rules and kick asses?
Get real. Baldwin does as he pleases and little girls can’t manage a guy like that.
As for someone planting a live round, a thought: .45 colt ammo is extremely hard to get today. You can bet that the cops are canvassing gun stores within miles in all directions to find out who managed to buy some.
But whether that turns up an evil person or not, she has said that she shook each and checked them thoroughly. None of us were there to say that we saw any different.
Even if she screwed up she is not the one who handed the gun to Baldwin and told him it was cold nor did she pull the trigger.
The first thing you do when anyone hands you a gun is you clear it and carefully inspect whether it is loaded and with what.
Just this week, a neighbor who is a very good friend and who knows I am very careful with firearms had a pistol he wanted to show me. He retrieved it, dropped the mag, racked the slide to eject the cartridge in the breech and then handed it to me.
Standard procedure.
Hall should have done that with Baldwin and if not, Baldwin should have.
I carry three different types of ammo in my revolvers according to where I am going and for what. I check mine daily to be sure they are loaded with what I might need on that day.
In other words, don’t trust anyone. I don’t even trust me.