Strangely, very few posts directed at the most salient part of this entire carnival - how did the freaking live round get into the revolver in the first place? Accident or armorer misfeasance? That’s where the blame actually lies. There is an outside chance that someone wanted to destroy Baldwin’s career, but if so, how would they know he would pull the trigger while aiming it at someone and were all the chambers loaded with live rounds? The assistant director shouted that the gun was safe, yet this is not standard practice when handing over a weapon on set to an actor. If that was done to give Baldwin a false sense of security so that he didn’t feel a need to check the gun, then the assistant director was in on it. I think that suspicion should fall on him.
Nope, wrong answer.
Even if a psycho assassin or Satan or Lucifer substituted an entire bogus duplicate revolver, with live ammo, on the “prop gun” table,
THAT WOULD NOT EXCUSE BALDWIN FROM CHECKING THE CONDITION OF THE GUN HIS OWN DAM SELF.
You pick up any kind of gun, point it a a human, and shoot them, IT IS ON YOU.