Posted on 01/12/2022 11:08:59 PM PST by McGruff
“....lawsuit accused an ammunition supplier Wednesday of creating dangerous conditions on a movie set where a gun held by actor Alec Baldwin killed a cinematographer ....”
Ya gotta go to school for a long, long time to write that badly.
I thought it was the gun’s responsibility to check the ammunition.
“ Setting up the old “nobody’s fault” defense. The live ammo just happened to show up, nobody knows how it got there in the ammo box, but that’s all there is to it. May as well close the case.”
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I haven’t been following this very closely. But, as I understand it, some of the staff had been out plinking with the gun the evening before. If correct, they may be the source of the mixed ammo. Just my two bits.
Just because someone is killed.
It does not mean a criminal act was preformed.
FACT. As every reloader knows.
If I reckkomember correctly, the story went that the cast an crew was using the “prop” gun for target shooting the day before (or a couple of days before). Ammunition manufacturer had no control over what happened to their ammunition on the set.
Na. this lawsuit is simply a smoke screen and cover for the Armorer
I think investigators know that the union was P O’d and up to hijinks. The dumb young women should never have been hired. Old d-bag Baldwin was the exec Producer and THE BUCK STOPS WITH HIM.
A dummy round is just a none firing round that looks just like a real round, they can even have a primer in them. The difference is the dummy will have no powder and a dead primer, and they’ll be a few BB’s in them so they can be heard when you shake them. Looks real on the outside but completely inert. Unless you knew the actual weight of the bullet used there would be no way to determine if there was powder in it just by weighing it. I would assume there’s also an identifying mark on the round also. and some even have holes drilled into the side. Commonly used when they show an actor handling ammunition such as loading a weapon. Before anybody asks you can burn the powder out of a primer making it inert and they may possibly get inert primers from the manufacturer but that’s just speculation.
They said dummy not blank, two different things. A dummy round is inert a blank round will fire. A dummy round will have a projectile loaded in it.
Well there shouldn’t have been any live ammo on the set period, no need for it, so this part of the story should be looked at closely.
I use dummy rounds all the time in training classes. They have a projectile in them but no powder and no primer. The primer end of the cartridge is painted purple and each student is instructed to check both ends of the round to ascertain it’s status. In a handgun one can’t tell if it’s real or dummy because the primer end is hidden.
No matter, the gun didn’t point itself and pull the trigger.
Somebody damn sure put it there.
bullets have a mind of their won, just like the gun. Everyone is free and clear to go home now that we found the culprit
“ Somebody damn sure put it there.”
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Lol, yeh. I’m a big fan of series Yellowstone. And, that bunch is always having big shootouts. It would be interesting to see what firearms procedure and discipline is. Apparently, it must be pretty good.
It would be easy to look at the primer end of the rounds in a revolver because the cylinder flips out. If they’re purple (or not purple) you’d see that, and for all the rounds at once.
The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office will still be claiming this in 2032.
Nobody will buy it although a paid-off judge will sign off.
Right, I see that in some Hollywood movies where a trained secret agent or special forces person doesn’t know someone unloaded their gun so they’re pointing it. Come on, they would know for several reasons, weight being one!
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