(10-24-2021, 03:13 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I can't wrap my head around why a real gun with live rounds is used on a movie set, especially when it's handled by somebody unqualified.

From what I understand several basic rules were broken regarding firearms.  A few off the top of my head.

1.  Never ever pick up a firearm and hand it to somebody without checking it.

2.  Never ever assume that a firearm is "cold" or unloaded when it is handed to you.

3.  Any time a firearm is handed to you, always verify the state.

The armorer didn't necessarily do anything wrong other than not supervising the firearms.

Quote:Hannah Gutierrez was named in records filed on Friday in Santa Fe, New Mexico, related to the fatal shooting. According to the records, the gun that took Hutchins' life and injured director Joel Souza was one of three that Gutierrez had set on a cart outside the building where a scene from the movie was being acted.

Moments before the fatal shooting, Assistant Director Dave Halls grabbed a prop gun off the cart and brought it inside to Baldwin, unaware that it was loaded with live rounds, a detective wrote in the application.

"Cold gun," Halls yelled.

In my opinion if anyone is charged with a crime it should be both the Assistant Director and Alec Baldwin for negligence and possible involuntary manslaughter.

A real gun I could see because they want realism, but as I said before, why hasn’t Hollywood invested in realistic guns that are unable to shoot actual bullets? 

It also seems to me that if real guns are on a set, a strict protocol of no live ammunition, of any kind, should be allowed within a well defined exclusion zone.

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