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Alec Baldwin Describes What Happened on ‘Rust’ Set: “I Let Go of the Hammer and ‘Bang,’ the Gun Goes Off”
Hollywood Reporter ^ | 12/2/2021 | Alex Weprin

Posted on 12/03/2021 5:43:02 AM PST by marcusmaximus

In his first sit-down interview since the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of his film Rust, an emotional Alec Baldwin gave a detailed timeline of exactly what happened that day, and broke down in tears while remembering Hutchins.

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“She was standing next to the camera, looking at a monitor … guiding me for how to hold the gun for this angle,” Baldwin said. “The gun wasn’t meant to be fired in that angle. I am holding the gun where I was told to hold it, which was right below her armpit. An angle that might not be filmed at all.”

Baldwin says that Hutchins told him to begin cocking the hammer for a particular shot.

“I pulled the hammer as far back as I could without cocking the gun,” Baldwin said. “I let go of the hammer and bang, the gun goes off.”

(Excerpt) Read more at hollywoodreporter.com ...


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KEYWORDS: alecbaldwin; baldwinapologists; baldwincontrol; baldwinviolence; halynahutchins; joelsouza; lockhimup; rust; saturdaynightlive; saturdaynightvile
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“I pulled the hammer as far back as I could without cocking the gun,” Baldwin said. “I let go of the hammer and bang, the gun goes off.”
1 posted on 12/03/2021 5:43:02 AM PST by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Guilty!


2 posted on 12/03/2021 5:43:48 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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That’s called shooting a gun.


3 posted on 12/03/2021 5:44:43 AM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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To: marcusmaximus

And this smartest man in the room wants to tell us how to run government, run Healthcare and fight the pandemic.


4 posted on 12/03/2021 5:45:56 AM PST by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: marcusmaximus

Thought he said earlier “it just went off itself”. LOL


5 posted on 12/03/2021 5:46:39 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: marcusmaximus

Wardrobe malfunction. He walks but it will cost him plenty. And his career is toast.


6 posted on 12/03/2021 5:47:04 AM PST by refermech
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To: marcusmaximus
Freaking idiot.

The explanation has no plausibility whatsoever.

Find a tall tree and a short rope.

7 posted on 12/03/2021 5:48:19 AM PST by OldSmaj (Living in the boondocks, bitterly clinging to my gun and my Bible. And loving it.)
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To: marcusmaximus

The ever evolving story.

“I don’t know what happened”

“I didn’t pull the trigger”

“I let go of the hammer”

Dude. You just don’t point a gun at another person.


8 posted on 12/03/2021 5:48:30 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: refermech

Also armorer will be found guilty of negligence. Her career is also over.


9 posted on 12/03/2021 5:49:25 AM PST by refermech
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To: JonPreston
That’s called shooting a gun.

Precisely.

10 posted on 12/03/2021 5:49:26 AM PST by glennaro (Although I don't believe in "big conspiracies", neither do I believe in "big coincidences")
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To: marcusmaximus

11 posted on 12/03/2021 5:49:49 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: marcusmaximus

Doesn’t this pos have a lawyer and didn’t he tell this clown to shut his mouth??


12 posted on 12/03/2021 5:50:45 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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13 posted on 12/03/2021 5:51:18 AM PST by The Louiswu (Peace to you and may God Bless you all)
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To: marcusmaximus
Reminds me of an old movie…


14 posted on 12/03/2021 5:51:22 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“…in any great disaster, there's a Harvard man in the middle of it.” ~ Thomas Sowell)
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To: marcusmaximus

Busted half cock notches. No excuse for pointing a gun at people


15 posted on 12/03/2021 5:54:18 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: JonPreston

No that’s called a single action revolver without modern firing pin trigger safety block going off half cocked. This is the origin of the term going off half cocked. Original colt single action and their derivatives all share this safety issue. If the hammer is pulled back but is not engaged to the past the half cocked or full cocked sears and it is released it will under spring pressure fall back forward with considerable speed usually enough when the foreign pin is struck to light off the cartridge. This is also why historically 6 shot single action revolvers where carried with one empty chamber and that chamber was under the hammer. When on horse back if brush or something caught the hammer while on the leg holster and it let go of the hammer before it made it back to a cocked on sear position the gun would discharge right down ones leg. Modern revolvers be it single or double action all now have some means of trigger actuated fireing pin block typically this is a rotating block that disconnects the hammer end of the firing pin from the primer end not until the trigger is fully pulled does the block rotate fully to allow the two ends of the firing pin to transfer force to the primer. 1860 ers single action revolvers lack this as do all of their period accurate clones. This firearm is a period accurate clones of a 1860s era single action it absolutely will go off half.cocked and there should have been a detailed safety still conducted to highlight this danger.


16 posted on 12/03/2021 5:54:48 AM PST by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: marcusmaximus

Alex Bawlin’


17 posted on 12/03/2021 5:55:50 AM PST by Old Yeller (You can’t obey your way out of tyranny.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Ya think?


18 posted on 12/03/2021 5:56:32 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: marcusmaximus

When you pull the hammer back on a single action and your finger is on the trigger the gun will go off when you let go of the hammer. That is how fanning shooting works. Dumbass.


19 posted on 12/03/2021 5:57:56 AM PST by DOC44 (ro)
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To: 2banana

The lighting, music effects and Baldwin’s script were all artfully rehearsed before Little George Steponallofus Productions turned on the cameras. No academy awards for this performance.


20 posted on 12/03/2021 5:59:00 AM PST by NautiNurse (Who will portray Alec Baldwin in the SNL skit? )
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