Posted on 12/17/2021 10:55:30 AM PST by marcusmaximus
Actor Alec Baldwin "requested a bigger gun" before the incident that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and director Joel Souza injured on the set of the movie Rust in October, police said.
An investigation of the deadly shooting recently revealed that Baldwin had discussed his choice of weapon with Rust armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed via email, according to an affidavit from Detective Alexandria Hancock, which was included in a search warrant issued to acquire Baldwin's cell phone on Thursday.
"Alec said since they were in rehearsal, he assumed he had an empty gun, therefore when he shot the gun, Haylena [sic] was right in front of him," Hancock wrote. "Alec described the gun to be a 'period' Colt. He said there were emails transferred back and forth between Hannah and him where she showed him different styles of guns."
"He said he requested a bigger gun, and she also showed him different styles of knives for the production," added Hancock. "
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as my great uncle would say, ‘Looks like a f*ckin Kraut 88 to me.
ok ok bad idea yalls.
Requested what? A .50 cal machine gun?
Well, I’d dearly love a Flak 88!
Or something to compensate for his shortcomings.
Another funny movie. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iZu2DtXQqs4
That’s what my Father would have said. He was with the 11th Armored.
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