‘Rust’ crew describes on-set gun safety issues and misfires days before fatal shooting. Hollywood needs to make some safety changes regarding firearms, including coursed by NRA certified instructors for everyone, including their dipshit actors who are clueless about firearms.
Safety protocols standard in the industry, including gun inspections, were not strictly followed on the “Rust” set near Santa Fe, the sources said. They said at least one of the camera operators complained last weekend to a production manager about gun safety on the set.
Baldwin’s stunt double accidentally fired two rounds Saturday after being told that the gun was “cold” — lingo for a weapon that doesn’t have any ammunition, including blanks — two crew members who witnessed the episode told the Los Angeles Times.
“There should have been an investigation into what happened,” a crew member said. “There were no safety meetings. There was no assurance that it wouldn’t happen again. All they wanted to do was rush, rush, rush.”
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TMZ is reporting that crew members were using this gun for off-set target practice, a possible explanation for how a real bullet ended up in one of the cylinders, AND that in the prop storage area they stored blanks and real bullets right next to each other.
Gun in Alec Baldwin Accident Was Also Used Off-Set, Recreationally (tmz.com)
The more we learn about this, the bigger morons they seem to be.
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Maybe if people like Baldwin spent less time trying to take away my right to defend myself and my family and more time listening to safety this wouldn’t have happened. You ALWAYS treat a gun as if it’s loaded. You NEVER point a gun at someone.
Isn't there some law about mentally disabled persons not
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handling firearms? If so, why was Baldwin anywhere near a firearm?
First and second rule of gun safety.
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I tried, but could only come up with blanks.
I can't believe this had already happened a few days ago and they didn't learn the lesson, nor can I believe that the moron who fired the gun in the first incident fired it twice! How stupid are these people? "Oh, shit! the gun was loaded! I better pull the trigger again!"
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It doesn't seem difficult at all to tell a blank round from a live one either.
I don't know much about movie making but I can't imagine why you would ever have real bullets anywhere on the set. Someone in one of the comment threads was saying they sometimes use real bullets for a more realistic sound effect, but surely anybody with common sense would not keep those real bullets anywhere near the prop guns used by the actors, would they? I mean, if you're going to use the sound of real bullets to make the sound effects better, that's something that would happen later and be done by effects guys. That would have nothing to do with the actors. I just don't get it, how could something like this happen?
If you're a gun person, it's sort of natural I think to check a gun someone hands you, even a prop gun, even a gun handed to you by someone you trust, by removing the clip, checking to see if there's a round chambered, etc. But actors, they're too stupid for common sense stuff like that.
I have been handed a gun (12 gauge) by someone I trusted who told me it was empty. I checked it, natually, and a round had been stuck in the mag and was coming up to the chamber had I closed the slide. I was 18 years old at the time and knew to check, always check. Taught my kids and grandkids the same lesson.
And speaking of sound effects, it is my personal opinion that the greatest western ever filmed was "Open Range" starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, and one of the things that made that movie so doggone awesome was that during the climactic gunfight the gunfire and the resulting impacts of the bullets sounded so damn realistic.