Happened on Burke’s Law. That was a great show. Gene Barry had to figure out who switched the prop gun for a real one.
Prop guns have live ammo?
We need common sense prop gun laws. If it saves one life...
Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee was killed in a similar incident back in 1993.
Jail Baldwin.
A prop gun typically has an obstruction in the barrel just in case a live load (not a blank) gets loaded. A bullet won’t make it down the barrel. But...a blank still ejects a lot of hot gas and whatever closed off the blank, so at close range they can be lethal (obviously now).
What were the circumstances?
From NYpos
Alec Baldwin fatally shot a woman and injured a man when a prop gun misfired at the New Mexico movie set of the film “Rust,” authorities said.
The filming location at Bonanza Creek Ranch in Sante Fe was initially sent into lockdown and production was halted following 1:50 p.m. double shooting.
“There was an accident today on the New Mexico set of Rust involving the misfire of a prop gun with blanks,” the production spokesperson told Deadline.
What are the details? I guess they will investigate. A prop gun should just be a prop gun and never kept anywhere near or even capable of using live rounds. But maybe some other kind of error is the problem here.
Per the story, Alec Baldwin fired the gun. Why he was pointing it at a cinematographer, and at what range, are two good questions. How he shot a second person is a third.
There’s supposed to be an Armorer or Weapons Master on set keeping track of the dangerous things.
I’m reading a piece on Daily Mail that said Alec Baldwin killed him!
We know if President Trump did this there would be charges of manslaughter and a long jail sentence.
One shot might be accidental manslaughter, but two makes it murder. Baldwin is famous for losing his temper and acting out. I hope he has 10 to 20 years to think about it.
Alec Baldwin. Karma.
This dork of a libtard should be charged with negligent homicide, pay millions to the relatives of the dead and be banned from prop guns after he's out of jail.
I think this was an episode of Murder She Wrote.......
This doesn’t rub me right.
I’ve been on set during pistol play. Granted, this is in Mexico so I’m sure that no one there had any qualifications to do this (Because I’ve also been to mexico) but what gets me is that two people were “shot”.
One died. We don’t know where the “hit” was, but we know she died. That’s horrible.
Wads and blanks will kill at point blank and will pierce skin and “F you up” at a few inches to a foot. If she was behind a camera with Baldwin in front of the camera the raneg should have been fine. It would be one of those “WHOA I didn’t know it would do THAT!” moments and the crew would setup differently.
But two?
Alec Baldwin is a jerk. That’s a fact. Ask his friends and family, they’ll concur. I’m willing to bet he DID put it up to her as a joke and pulled the trigger.
And a second guy?
This is going to be a very, very telling court case. Because he’s going to court. If he doesn’t go to court something is seriously wrong. He may even go to Mexican court where they would love (lovelovelove) to incarcerate an American of status.
A second shot and second injury eliminates enough ‘whoopsies’ to make this a very likely crime.
I wonder if any of it got video recorded
Two people nailed with a prop gun and (I assume) blanks. This is gonna be interesting. Too bad competent investigative reporters are nearly extinct.