Baldwin. Guilty ? Of what ? BANG. Whoops.

BarnBuster said:

"FBI’s findings that accidental discharge testing determined the gun held by Baldwin when it went off on set, striking Hutchins and Souza, “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional.”

What forensic testing reveals about revolver in on-set 'Rust' shooting

The FBI conducted accidental discharge testing on the firearm used in the shooting.

abcnews.go.com

"a postmortem report obtained by ABC News says. “Based on all available information, including the absence of obvious intent to cause harm or death, the manner of death is best classified as accident.”

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I do wonder what the pull weight on that trigger was.

A S/A revolver? Unaltered, probably 5 ish lbs max.

"The state Board of Finance has awarded the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office more than $317,000 to prosecute people connected to the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on set of the Alec Baldwin film Rust in October."

You have to wonder why there is even any need for anything more than a fake gun on the set. Today's video/audio editing software is so good that it would be a very simple task to just edit in the gunshot sounds in the safety of a studio by someone using a computer.

BarnBuster said:

"Baldwin’s suit, filed Friday in Los Angeles, names armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, as well as props master Sarah Zachry, munitions supplier Seth Kenney and first assistant director Dave Halls, who handed him the firearm."

Alec Baldwin sues ‘Rust’ colleagues for giving him gun used to kill cinematographer

The 'Rust' star contends he shouldn't have been given the live gun used to fire a fatal shot into filmmaker Halyna Hutchins

www.nydailynews.com

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That guys a certified piece of bovine manure. He still claims that he didn't even pull the trigger. He's pure scum. Everyone knows it was a tragic accident but his behaviour and actions after the fact show what a pathetic scumbag alec baldwin is.

xtsho said:

That guys a certified piece of bovine manure. He still claims that he didn't even pull the trigger. He's pure scum. Everyone knows it was a tragic accident but his behaviour and actions after the fact show what a pathetic scumbag alec baldwin is.

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I never cared much for Baldwin. Sadly, there were a lot of red flags on the set and production of this film. The first armorer they interviewed for the film declined the position because he had a bad feeling about everything. I'd like to think Hannah did everything by the book (her father is Thell Reed, a Hollywood legend) but there are/were a lot of unanswered questions about the live ammunition.

BarnBuster said:

I never cared much for Baldwin. Sadly, there were a lot of red flags on the set and production of this film.

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He had his moments of comedy but that's all been erased by his recent behaviour. What a piece of garbage. He's trying to profit off of being an idiot.

“The evidence clearly shows a pattern of criminal disregard for safety on the ‘Rust’ film set.”

Court/filing Docs

Back in '91-92 I was a sophomore in high school and was taking a Spanish class. For a project, we had to write and act out a stupid little skit in Spanish, basically like a mini play with props and the works. Close buddy of mine - in a different class - decided his team were going to act out some little Conquistador scene. His family had this decrepit looking old replica flintlock pistol mounted to a wooden plaque over their mantle. He thought it would make a cool prop so he brought it to school and used it for the skit. The entire day he'd be walking the halls between classes and jokingly pointing it and pulling the trigger at us as we went from class to class. Apparently no teachers decided an old replica was a big deal and no one made an issue out of it. So after school him and some other friends were hanging out and probably getting stoned. Just like during the school day, he would occasionally 'shoot' one of them with it. The last time he pulled the trigger the fucking thing went off. Turns out it apparently wasn't a replica after all. He shot one of our friends in the chest at maybe 5 feet away, killing him. Could have just as easily been me or any one of 20 other people he pointed it at. He spent like 6 months in an institution after that before he could effectively cope again. I personally think Alec Baldwin is a bit of a scumfuck, but even with my ambivalence toward guns I don't really think any sense of justice would be served by prosecuting him for an accident that he couldn't have reasonably foreseen. I didn't exactly take a deep dive on this situation, though, so maybe there are more damning details I'm unaware of.

? Who filled the pan

As far as I know, no one did anything to the thing, aside from my friend clicking it off throughout the day. I don't know nearly enough about the actual gun itself to be 100% certain it was a flintlock and not some other similar weapon. I call it that because that's what it looked like to me as a dumb teenager. But it was an old 'replica' hanging on a plaque above the mantle for who knows how long. 100% true story.

What happened to your friend?

Missed a lot of school and spent some time in a mental hospital getting right again. Don't think he got in any kind of legal trouble for it. Considering he already had to live with the fact that he accidentally killed his friend, what more punishment would a kid really need? Took some time but he ended up bouncing back went on to be an ostensibly productive member of society.