Posted on 10/23/2021 11:06:53 AM PDT by conservative98
Alec Baldwin failed to follow the No. 1 rule of gun safety before the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust,” a Hollywood weapons expert tells The Post.
“Loaded or unloaded, a weapon never gets pointed at another human being,” said Bryan Carpenter, who heads Dark Thirty Film Services.
Even on a film or TV set, he said “you never let the muzzle of a weapon cover something you don’t intend to destroy.”
The prop gun had misfired twice on Oct. 16 and once the week before, according to the Los Angeles times, and union workers said the “Rust” set had been plagued by safety issues, prompting them to walk out in the hours ahead of the tragic shooting.
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“Nonetheless,” Carpenter said, the weapon handled by Baldwin was “obviously pointed at another human being.”
The weapons consultant cited what he called “Colonel Jeff Cooper’s four fundamentals” of gun safety.
“All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are,” reads the No. 1 rule by Cooper, an influential gun safety expert who died in 2006.
While news reports call the firearm a “prop” weapon, Carpenter said the label can be misleading. Some movie-set firearms are “true” props made of rubber. But others, like the one used on the set of “Rust,” are capable of deadly force.
The consultant also said that for safety purposes live firearms used in TV and movie productions are typically aimed at a dummy point, not at equipment, cast or crew members, as was the case with the weapon handled by Baldwin.
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Rules are for the rubes in fly over states and the NRA./s
More people are killed by unloaded guns than any other.
OK, aren't those three guys aiming their guns at one another?
Fine. But someone loaded the gun. Have they come forward?
Some “cute” little union trick? Not so cute. Got a woman killed.
But let's be real....Guns don't kill...People do!! And this is 100% his fault.
Stupidity is NOT an excuse. Someone DIED!
I would give reasonable odds that she is to Alec Baldwin what Kamala was to Willie Brown.
Stay tuned. There’s probably more to this story, which will come out.
I heard some 20 year old woman was allegedly the one who is responsible for the guns on set, and she allegedly made a big mistake in handling the set of guns used. Whether true or not, I’m sure other facts will come out.
Will anyone be held legally liable? A woman is lying there dead, and there seems to be a lot of confusion as to how this could have happened, and who is responsible.
I’m sure civil litigation is already being developed. But whether criminal negligence will ever lead to criminal legal proceedings, is unknown.
The infamous circular firing squad.
Regardless of who prepared the weapon and handed it to him, Alec Baldwin aimed it and pulled the trigger. There is no escaping that fact.
My brother and I learned that lesson from our father when we got our first BB guns at around age ten to twelve.
Depends on if it was a mutually agreed upon meeting for the “shoot”.......
Not if it’s a toy gun, which is all Hollywood actors should be given.
He shot two non-actors. If he was rehearsing a scene how did he end up shooting crew members and not the actors in the scene? Why was he point the gun at crew members when he fired the gun?
She does not look like someone who was chosen for her firearms skills.
I don’t think she’s Alec’s type.
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