Posted on 03/14/2022 8:23:26 AM PDT by conservative98
The armorer on the set of Alec Baldwin’s flick “Rust” has accused him of violating gun-safety rules and claimed she was not asked to inspect the revolver he used in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
Hannah Gutierrez Reed responded to a legal filing in which Baldwin said Hutchins told him to cock the antique revolver, CNN reported.
“Mr. Baldwin knew that he could never point a firearm at crew members under any circumstances and had a duty of safety to his fellow crew members,” Gutierrez Reed said in a statement Saturday, according to the network.
“Yet he did point the gun at Halyna before the fatal incident against all rules and common sense,” she added.
Gutierrez Reed said Baldwin and others on the Western set “had a duty and responsibility to call Hannah in for inspection of the gun and safety instruction before any gun scene was conducted.”
“Hannah was not called into the Church before the impromptu gun scene rehearsal and she should have been,” according to the statement cited by CNN.
The rookie armorer said she didn’t know what was happening inside the church set on the day of the shooting and that the 63-year-old star was responsible for helping maintain the safety of the crew.
Gutierrez Reed said she encountered “constant resistance” from Baldwin and production staffers during her time on the set, according to CNN.
“Hannah emphasized the importance of training Mr. Baldwin in the cross draw, which is dangerous,” the statement reportedly said.
“He never accepted the offer and Hannah was not able to conduct that training as well as other training she wanted to do, because of budgeting and being overruled by production.”
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Yes he did and he is guilty. Guilty of what and how he will be punished is yet to be determined.
I tend to use my cross draw rig always - especially when mounted but don’t understand the armorer’s comment that pulling the pistol from a cross is (more) dangerous - maybe it’s a little more dangerous for the horse as he’d be in a more direct line of getting hit in the neck with an unplanned discharge.
Baldwin claimed last week that Gutierrez Reed ordered him not to double-check that the revolver had no live bullets in it, saying “it was her job to check the gun – not his.”
“An actor cannot rule that a gun is safe. That is the responsibility of other people on the set,” Baldwin said in legal papers filed Friday in which he denied any responsibility for shooting Hutchins.
He insisted that every single mistake leading to the Oct. 21 shooting on the New Mexico set was “performed by someone else.”
Because of COVID-19 safety protocols (set up by production for which Alec is a part of), she was not on set and he was given the gun by someone else. Once again Covid safety backfires.
Jessie? Could eat her eyeballs, he’s not gonna be prosecuted..no justice just corruption
he picked up.
he cocked.
He aimed.
He pulled the trigger.
the rest is just static.
It's a miracle she can even speak from under the bus.
she was not asked to inspect the revolver he used in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.
not ask to do her job??? does she not know what her job was?
shouldn’t she have made that a priority being the “armorer” and all...
Agree. I also happen to believe her statement. Big Hollywood star tells young armorer to go pound sand when she wants to conduct training and be kept in the loop.
Seems he is guilty of negligent homicide.. but I”m no lawyer.
thats up to a court. but if I was on the jury... he’d be swinging from a lamp post “rust” style.
She wasn’t asked because she wasn’t on set.
They were doing an impromptu shot.
Production had her off doing something else.
Production was cheap.
Production dad the armorer doing more than one job.
Production dismissed firearm safety.
First armorer walked off because of that.
That’s nice.
How did the live cartridge get into the chamber - the chamber that would be brought into battery when the gun was cocked?
I think Alec Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez Reed are wrestling to see who can throw the other under the bus. But both of them belong under the bus.
Not only are you performing a 90 degree sweep(know your target and beyond), you are also using more muscle groups to get the gun on target. Definitely more dangerous.
Can people perform it safely? Sure, those that practice and aren't bumbling old know-it-all actors. I still wouldn't want to be in that sweep arc which is why most ranges do not allow cross draw holsters. Outside in single use "pits" with berms all around, no issue.
That statement is well understood in the Firearms training industry. To remove a gun from a cross draw holster almost always involves sweeping or lasering some part of your body or other directions around you other that the ground and down range towards the target.
Most shooting schools will not allow cross draw or behind the back holsters for training for this reason.
Now cross draw for single action cowboy shooting may be viewed differently, and I am not into cowboy shooting (yet). But for defensive shooting with most defensive pistols (not single action), cross draw is not encouraged.
she’s in charge of the guns, locked up and she has the key
at least that’s the way it’s supposed to work...
she’s just a lil girl LARPing and is now paying for it
She didn't know the job very well, and was also assigned other propmaster duties in addition to being armorer, so she was elsewhere the day the church scene was being rehearsed.
Her days as an armorer in movies is over. It may also be the end of Alec Baldwin’s career too regardless of how the case turns out.
Baldwin is a sexist and racist for blaming it all on a woman with a Spanish name.
That’s what the left would say if Baldwin were a conservative, so why should we not say it now?
They’re both responsible for her death. How does a live round end up ⬆️ n a prop gun? She didn’t do her job and he’s an idiot for pointing the gun with the safety off. Here they are blaming each other but they’re both at fault for different but connected reasons.
Cross draw for single action revolvers and and single action semi-autos is the most dangerous since you must be pulling the hammer back as you draw, increasing the likelihood of a drop-hammer discharge.
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