Posted on 02/20/2023 12:39:07 PM PST by Leaning Right
FWIW I don't remember this as being true. Early articles said that the AD had her doing a lot of extra stuff, non-armorer related. And that she knew nothing about the live fire stuff going on after hours by the crew.
I fully EXPECTED, from the time the shooting occurred, the bastard would NEVER have to pay for his stupidity and recklessness.
Hollowoody extreme left elites are above the law. First Jussie Fruit Smellit and now numbnuts Baldwin, the SNL’s Anti-Trump.
Read Post No. 1. The U.S. Constitution prohibits ex post facto laws.
OK, that didn’t take long.
Which extra stuff she should have refused to do. Armorer is a critical safety position and a full-time job on any set. This was a low-budget production and they cut way too many corners.
The Armorer is personally responsible for the chain of custody for all weapons, which are supposed to be securely stored (locked up) when not used in the production. There is no way she should have allowed other crew members to access the pistols for recreational use after hours, or at any other time.
Likewise, the Armorer is responsible for controlling all ammunition, blanks or live rounds which are supposed to be kept in secure storage. There was no requirement in this production for live fire, and no live rounds should have been permitted on the set.
If she "didn't know" about the target practice and the live rounds on set she simply was not doing her job.
It gets worse, of course. The Armorer is responsible for loading and unloading all firearms and personally delivering them to the production scene and retrieving them afterwards. For larger productions, the Armorer will have assistants (designated Weapons Handlers) to help with those activities. There is supposed to be an unbroken chain of custody in all weapons transfers.
There should not have been any of this "tell the Assistant Director to pick up a firearm from a stack of them on a cart left behind the building" stuff.
It took multiple screwups over a sustained period before the combination came up that finally bit them all in the ass. It was totally preventable.
Yes
Who is the Prosecutor? Marsha Blackburn?
I,was just gonna say that. It would take a man of moral,fortitude to admit they were wrong, but that is not Alec, not by a long shot- he has been a scumbag towards the victims families and set crews, blaming everyone else but himself from day one of the shooting
He broke 14 or so onset safety requirements, and was so bad that the safety crew walked off the set right before the incident. He refused to take instruction on how to handle the gun for the cross draw, which is harder than a standard draw according to those on the set, and he aimed the gun directly at the camera woman and assistant in direct violation of the most important rule for handling guns. The man was incompetent when it came to safety, and sadly,his ignorant incompetence cost so one their lives and resulted in injury to another.
They should also charge him with gross negligence, which should,be easy to prove given the fact that he refused to be taught by experts and violated the first commandment of gun handling. He was also responsible,for checking the gun himself, which he didn’t do, another case of gross negligence which resulted in someones death
Alec’s father had been shot on the rifle range as a Marine shooting instructor.
Here is an excerpt from Baldwin’s book on him, the Baldwin boys knew guns, so Alec chose what he wanted to do or not do in regard to safety.
” He coached football at the school. Led a cub scout troop. Coached Little League. And was coach of the Massapequa High School rifle team, which went to the New York State Public High School Athletic Association state riflery championship twice during his career. That honor was nearly always the reserve of upstate, and therefore more rural, schools. For a “downstate” school to win was considered impossible. My father’s team won both times.
Years later, doctors informed me that the inhalation of lead dust from working in an unventilated rifle range may have contributed significantly to his death. On Parris Island in 1945, a bullet would not kill him. But bullets eventually did, at the age of 55, from lymph cancer that spread through his body.”
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