There was a very unfortunate firearms incident on the movie RUST set. One of the biggest Hollywood anti 2nd Amendment activists, Alex Baldwin was the person pulling the trigger. One person died and another wounded.
🙏Prayers to the family of Mrs. Halyna Hutchins
Seems the day prior to the incident, there were union labor troubles and there may be some big fallout..
Firearms discharge: unintentional vs negligent vs revenge??
There will be questions to be answered if Kalifornacate doesn't bury it for the good of the cause??
UPDATE: as I was typing this post FoxNews came out with an article..
Quote:
Alec Baldwin's fatal prop gun shooting: Experts weigh in on how accident happened
The actor accidentally shot and killed 'Rust' cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza
"The person responsible for loading and ensuring that the firearm is ready for the scene is called an armorer [or weapons master], and you're supposed to have an armorer and an assistant armorer. Then there are several steps that you're supposed to go through to ensure that a weapon is loaded correctly with the correct type of blanks," Corrie explained. "Because there's more than one type of blank, there's lower power and then mid-power and then high-power blanks, and they create different visual effects."
"Before the actor is even given the weapon, it's supposed to go through several stages of safety before it's handed to the actor. And the actor has to entrust that the armorer and everyone else involved have done their job correctly before handing the weapon to the actor," he continued.
Armorer is a fairly new position in the history of film production, going back only to the 1980s. Before that, the prop master handled everything. Recently, it’s become more common to enlist specialists.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...ooting-experts
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