Posted on 10/27/2021 12:27:12 AM PDT by grundle
My comment was in reference to a couple of articles on line about how a live round could end up in a stage prop ... crew alleged to have borrowed it for plinking and then returned it.
Alec Baldwin wanted to try some target shooting himself and after killing one person and wounding another he was heard to say: “How’d I do? Pretty good shooting hitting 2 people with one shot”
Yup
I don’t limit to cans or bottles but do make it a point not to shoot people.
I try to shoot the least expensive ammo but these days $$$
Gotcha’ I was just saying in My opinion on the sizes.
Do we know there’s a $6-million policy? That won’t be enough. The civil judgments I’ve looked up from recent years of movie set deaths, even for stuntmen, are about $10 million or higher in damages. Or in settlements made out of court.
Personal liability is definitely on the table. Individual directors and producers have been named in these lawsuits. Spielberg was named in the Twilight Zone lawsuit. Director Alex Proyas was named in The Crow lawsuit. The director and producers of Midnight Rider were named in that lawsuit. People aren’t even talking about the director’s liability here, but in these other prominent cases, the director seems to often be considered the most guilty party.
Midnight Rider is the worst case scenario for the film crew in terms of legal problems. That was jail for the director, probation keeping him and others from working in the industry, multi-million dollar judgments divided up among the higher-ups and crew.
The Crow is the best case scenario. No criminal charges whatsoever. Just the lawsuit from the family settled out of court.
I’ve found nothing published out there related to whether insurance covered these fines or not.
New Mexico, not CA.
no wonder Alex Baldwin is for gun control. he is projecting his own incompetence in the area of gun safety onto everyone around him. I would be scared if I figured everyone took gun safety as seriously as he takes gun safety
I read 6 million dollar on insurance. Take it for what it is worth considering it was a news article. You are right, 6 million is low considering the other gun accidents on the site without changes to procedures.
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