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Zoey Deutch apparently auditioned for the part. She would’ve been perfect, but the non-white producer Walter Hamada and these non-white directors of course picked a non-white actress for the part, showing their incredible lack of bias.

Tia Carrere did a livestream on Friday and at one point said that actors are never supposed to point a gun directly at someone else. Keep in mind she starred in True Lies and 66 episodes of the action show Relic Hunter.

I’ve heard a gun described as “live with blanks.” Whether a blank would be referred to as a “live round,” I’m not sure. Seems like the term “blank” would always be in any phrase referring to it.

We’re not dealing with blanks here though. Dummy rounds were the ones that would have been this gun, and are reported to have been partially loaded into it. It might be easier to mistake a dummy round for a live round.

I think someone “borrowed” the gun to play with it, and left 1 live round in it when they returned it. Then I think the armorer picked up the gun, didn’t check it fully, assumed it was empty, and started putting dummy rounds in it from her full stash. I think she didn’t keep count and didn’t notice that she only put 5 dummies in.

So, yes, I think Baldwin may have only fired once, but Hutchins lost her involuntary game of Russian Roulette. This type of accident is extremely rare on film sets, so it’s very likely that a long chain of unlikely events had to happen to make this tragedy happen.

I think the young woman’s social media profile suggests she doesn’t have a rigorous enough intellect to even be trusted to fill your order correctly at a McDonald’s drive-thru.

Pretty sure I read it in an article that was quoting from a press conference. They said most rounds found in the gun had a hole in them to indicate dummy rounds. Another one may also have been a dummy, but lacked the hole.

It’s also logical. In a close-up shot as this scene was staged for, they would want dummy rounds in there visible to the camera.

The gun was to be loaded with dummy rounds, not blanks, and reportedly had at least three dummy rounds in it.

Actors are not going to have the expertise to load and unload every kind of gun out there, and tell the difference between live rounds, dummy rounds and blanks. The actor supposedly has the right to ask the armorer to show him that the gun is properly set up.

In the case of an empty gun, or dummy rounds, part of the armorer’s or AD’s check could be to fire it into the ground to confirm it will not fire anything. Can the actor test fire it too? They’d basically have to watch the armorer do it, or have the armorer watch them, to confirm conditions are right so that no damage is caused if the gun does prove to fire unexpectedly.

If an actor happens to be an expert on all of this stuff, they could certainly unofficially check the gun themselves. But that would not be something that they are trained to do or told to do as standard practice.

Now, the question of should Baldwin have ever pointed the gun at another human being is a valid one. No one yet knows if he pulled the trigger on purpose or accidentally, or if the gun somehow fired on its own. We don’t know if he was instructed to hold a pose for the camera, while other people were walking around and passing in front of the gun. If someone told him to point the gun in another person’s direction and pull the trigger, he still arguably shouldn’t have done it, and should have demanded that person move out of the path of the gun. Certainly IF he was required to point the gun at someone for the shot, that would’ve been a great time to ask that the gun be double-checked in his presence.

It’s one thing to check if a gun is empty, but an actor would not be expected to know the difference between a live round, a blank and a dummy round. Some of those would need to be checked by removing them from the gun, so, again, an actor would not be expected to have the expertise of unloading and loading a gun.

One thing they might be able to do is test fire a gun that is supposed to be empty or filled with dummy rounds into the ground. This would likely not be part of their official job instructions though. And that might require they and anyone nearby wear earplugs and have a safe spot to point the gun at, in case it fires. So they may not be allowed to do that either. One thing they supposedly are allowed to do is ask the armorer to show them that the gun is loaded or unloaded with the proper material.

Also, the very first time I heard that someone was taking the guns for target practice was on another forum where someone who was allegedly in a private group for film crew posted the information. I think he said someone working on Rust had shared the information that “the daughter of the prop master” had taken the guns for target practice. Just an unconfirmed rumor though. But it sounds like this prop master had the key to the safe, so she has to be investigated as someone who could’ve led to the live rounds getting in the gun.

Bingo, our prop master has a name-o.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/10/29/alec-baldwin-shot-halyna-hutchins-gun-rust-set-timeline/

When shooting began again, Ms Gutierrez-Reed says she was handed the guns after lunch by prop master Sarah Zachary and then placed three of them on a cart outside the chapel, ready to be used in the scene being filmed inside.

Which one do you think is going to look like a hot mess in the media?

She didn't need any help doing that. Her social media had that covered.

She's definitely had other types of jobs before.

Yep. If your job includes making a prop gun safe and taking out the trash, you don’t do the second part until you’re done with the first part. If you don’t have time to finish everything, the part you don’t finish needs to be taking out the trash.

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.

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Still visible in Google cache here with similar posts in someone's screenshots of her other posts here and other places.

And Bing has this choice result:

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You stole Bart Simpson's trick.

I took a look at her Twitter account before she took it down. Took these screencaps. There was a lot more where this came from. The one here that mentions working on a film set with her father was the only Tweet she had out there about any sort of armorer experience. I just took that one as proof of who she was. 90% of the Tweets were related to "dominatrix" services, as she mentions at the top of her profile.

By his description, it sounds like a case where the multiple layers of people being responsible for checking had the opposite of their intended effect. Each person in the chain assumed the previous person had performed the proper check, and skipped doing it themselves. This post says the armorer should be the one who hands out weapons, but I have heard elsewhere that the armorer is supposed to hand them to the AD, who is supposed to perform his own double check. But having one person solely responsible for checking and handing out the weapons would avoid this mistake of someone thinking someone else already did the work.

This post thinks the armorer was playing with the guns on break, left them on a cart still loaded, walked away, and then the AD grabbed them, thinking they were loaded with blanks. That seems to be contradicted by reporting elsewhere in this thread though, which says the gun was inspected after the shooting and was found to have dummy rounds in it.

3. Revolvers are very easy to examine if their cylinders loaded with live ammo: all anyone had to do was look at the face of the cylinder (with the barrle pointed away from your face) with the hammer at half-cock to see if there were any bulleted cartridges in the cylinder.

For camera close-ups, the gun was possibly filled with dummy rounds, that may not be distinguishable from live rounds with an external inspection.

To remove and inspect dummy rounds and distinguish them from real rounds is not a task that an actor on a set would be trusted to do, or be trained to do.

As someone else said, those could've been tested by attempting to fire each round into the ground. Nothing should've happened if they were dummy rounds. I'm also guessing that is not common practice though. If the actor wants to inspect a firearm, it sounds like the protocol is to have the armorer come to him to respond to his inquiries and demonstrate that the gun is safe.

I know the Brandon Lee incident involved a dummy round where the primer was left on it. It got propelled into the barrel when shooting that scene. Then the gun was filled with blanks and the barrel wasn’t checked, causing the firing of a blank in the next scene to fire the dummy round out of the gun.

Is it possible the deadly round in this case was intended to be a dummy round, but was improperly made or prepared?

Assuming that the gun was used recreationally with real rounds by a random crew member in between scenes, and they left one real round in the weapon, how easy (or hard) is it for the armorer to make the mistake of filling the other 5 chambers with dummies but neglecting to take out the one live round? Assuming that she walks up to the gun with the assumption that it’s empty.

Of course, I understand that’s why it was said to lay out your 6 rounds on the table beforehand. If you’re pulling them out of a box, it’s certainly easier to forget how many you just put in.