Yes, it makes me cringe having to defend him. If it was me or you they might have a case because we own and shoot guns so we should have the knowledge to always check the gun yourself and never point it at someone but as far as I know he’s not a gun guy.
I think his dad was actually a rifle range instructor.
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.”