Honestly I think k the DA fucked up by charging Baldwin now as it gives benefit of the doubt.
The armorer really messed up and someone died. The fact the defense can point to someone else as the fault due to DA ego is not good.
Baldwin should be charged, and fully investigated, but having the big Hollywood star hanging around as reasonable doubt for the person responsible will harm true justice
Seems she needs a better choice of words than “dummy.”
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I’m still baffled as to why you’d have live rounds of any kind on set anyways. I thought this sort of thing was ridiculously complex and rule heavy since Brandon Lee, like every step gas shitloads of people to check them or whatever.
Hold on… This is still goin on?
Why the fuck does any movie set need guns with firing pins?
The worst thing that will happen is probation and them paying a shit ton of money to the family
This is who shouod be charged.
This all was her job, her responsibility. She was a nepo hire who had no business being an armorer.
Sharp intake of breath
That’s like her job. Make the guns safe. Her job. The like main crux of her job… She checked… Sometimes? That admition alone us the fact that she’s the one buying the ammunition should out her in jail.
Wasn’t there talk of target practice happening – that would take live ammunition
It’s almost as if she was incredibly unqualified for the job.
As someone that does some firearms consulting for the media from time to time I am unbelievably appalled at her lack of attention, lack of expertise, lack of experience and her total incompetence and infuriated by the nepotism that put her there. I shake my fist at the gods!
Sixty of percent of the times, it works every single time. —from Anchorman.
They were storing and using the live ammunition in the same place as the blanks, apparently members of the crew were plinking between takes. When the first officers arrived, it was noted that live and blank ammo was being left out in the open, *together.* That alone demonstrates the lack of discipline and experience this armorer has.
There has to be complete and total control of the ammo, and it *must* stored separately. There are safety briefs and procedure to mitigate this that every real armorer knows. There are plenty of armorers that simply do not allow live ammo to be used or stored on the set, and that makes an awful lot of sense right about now
“Gutierrez Reed described her process for checking to make sure that rounds are dummies. **Most** dummies on the set rattled when shaken — a safety feature indicating that they could not be fired.”
“I am shaking all of them **most** of the time,” Gutierrez Reed said.”
A lot of *most* usage. Sadly not *all*.
I mean almost anybody with common sense can tell the difference between real and blank bullet while loading each one into the chambers of a six shooter. This is beyond stupid.
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Game over.
Honestly I think k the DA fucked up by charging Baldwin now as it gives benefit of the doubt.
The armorer really messed up and someone died. The fact the defense can point to someone else as the fault due to DA ego is not good.
Baldwin should be charged, and fully investigated, but having the big Hollywood star hanging around as reasonable doubt for the person responsible will harm true justice
Seems she needs a better choice of words than “dummy.”
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I’m still baffled as to why you’d have live rounds of any kind on set anyways. I thought this sort of thing was ridiculously complex and rule heavy since Brandon Lee, like every step gas shitloads of people to check them or whatever.
Hold on… This is still goin on?
Why the fuck does any movie set need guns with firing pins?
The worst thing that will happen is probation and them paying a shit ton of money to the family
This is who shouod be charged.
This all was her job, her responsibility. She was a nepo hire who had no business being an armorer.
Sharp intake of breath
That’s like her job. Make the guns safe. Her job. The like main crux of her job… She checked… Sometimes? That admition alone us the fact that she’s the one buying the ammunition should out her in jail.
Wasn’t there talk of target practice happening – that would take live ammunition
It’s almost as if she was incredibly unqualified for the job.
As someone that does some firearms consulting for the media from time to time I am unbelievably appalled at her lack of attention, lack of expertise, lack of experience and her total incompetence and infuriated by the nepotism that put her there. I shake my fist at the gods!
Sixty of percent of the times, it works every single time. —from Anchorman.
They were storing and using the live ammunition in the same place as the blanks, apparently members of the crew were plinking between takes. When the first officers arrived, it was noted that live and blank ammo was being left out in the open, *together.* That alone demonstrates the lack of discipline and experience this armorer has.
There has to be complete and total control of the ammo, and it *must* stored separately. There are safety briefs and procedure to mitigate this that every real armorer knows. There are plenty of armorers that simply do not allow live ammo to be used or stored on the set, and that makes an awful lot of sense right about now
“Gutierrez Reed described her process for checking to make sure that rounds are dummies. **Most** dummies on the set rattled when shaken — a safety feature indicating that they could not be fired.”
“I am shaking all of them **most** of the time,” Gutierrez Reed said.”
A lot of *most* usage. Sadly not *all*.
I mean almost anybody with common sense can tell the difference between real and blank bullet while loading each one into the chambers of a six shooter. This is beyond stupid.