Watch how fast baldwin throws Gutierrez-Reed under the bus......and that was her first gig as an armorer?....... she doesn’t stand a chance.
“and that was her first gig as an armorer?”
...and last.
Wasn’t her first gig as head armorer.
She had been on another movie with Nicholos Cage, “The Old Way”. The cast and crew from that movie were less than impressed with her safety and attention to detail.
That gal was a train wreck and it wasn’t her first effort.
Here is a thread about her incompetence.
‘Rust’ armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed once gave unchecked gun to 11-year-old actor: report
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4006225/posts
Rookie ‘Rust’ armorer once made Nicolas Cage storm off film set after firing gun
https://nypost.com/2021/10/27/rookie-rust-armorer-made-nicolas-cage-storm-off-previous-set-after-firing-gun/
And she should not have a chance.
Gutierrez-Reed had exactly one job on that production, and she failed to do it. The Armorer is supposed to control all weapons on a set and maintain safe operation of them. There was no excuse for allowing live ammunition on the set at any time. That was the first link in a long chain of omissions that lead to a death.
Actors are assumed to be chimpanzees who cannot ever be trusted with live weapons. There is a body of industry-specific standard practices to solve this problem and they are effective. It is the job of the Armorer to enforce them. She did not. That was criminal negligence.
Baldwin is just an ordinary jackass of an actor who depends on others to keep him in a safe environment. He will skate on manslaughter charges because the DA screwed up the indictment.