LINK Warrant: Baldwin Didn't Know Weapon Loaded With Live Rounds
This is unbelievable. Who could be this careless? Live rounds aren't supposed to be used in the set. I really hope it doesn't turn out that there was any malicious intent here. Why was Alec Baldwin handed a firearm loaded with full rounds.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.The live rounds was certainly a big issue. My question I keep wondering is why was he pointing the gun and pulling the trigger at the directors? Had one of the other actors been shot by the fatal error (which has happened on other movie sets) sort of understandable. By why was it aimed at targets not in the actual movie action?
Barnie2years
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Oct 23, 2021
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There's a lot more to this story, from what I heard from Rachel Maddow earlier.
BitFlipper
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Oct 23, 2021
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At close range "dead" rounds (for noise & flash) can & have killed.
AnneWimsey
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Oct 22, 2021
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Yes but these were real bullets, not blanks. I wonder how many non-fatal near misses there have been in the past. If nobody has gotten hurt, we wouldn't know about this incident. There has to be better safety protocol in the industry.
@barjoe apparently there was a walk-off by workers on this set because of safety concerns more than once....very low-budget film & no required Union PropMaster overseeing.
Last night MSNBC did a recap of several instances where this kind of thing happened (but mostly with blanks) where people were killed, including Bruce Lee's son, thus the Union rules about PropMasters. But if you don't hire one......
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