” Failure to obey even the simplest training on firearm safety. “
Who in the hell grabs a gun without checking the chamber, making sure the safety is on, let alone point it at another person???
Can’t Hollywood use fake guns? Why would you ever take the risk of using a real one?
What a brain dead group.
Actors.
Most actors are completely incompetent at safe handling of firearms. But there is a big audience for action movies which require actors to pretend to shoot other actors. It's a problem.
That's why the film industry has the 79 Rules in "Safety Bulletin #1". They are all about making sure that actors never hold a live weapon on a set, nor have access to ammunition. Armorers and Weapon Handlers have a critical role in those procedures.
The "79 Rules" work very well - when they are followed by competent practitioners and enforced by the management. There have been literally hundreds of thousands of movie scenes shot in the past 50 years without anyone getting shot. Along comes Alec Baldwin.
I imagine a system of justice in which Alec Baldwin would serve a jail sentence, and then be asset-stripped to his underwear in the civil suits that followed.
It is good to have a dream.
The armorer is supposed to be the last person to check and handle the weapon before handing it to the actor. If the actor handles/inspects it, the armorer has to inspect it all over again.