Producer who hired scab armorers with bad record and fired the gun? Should’ve been negligent homicide
You ever see in old kung fu movies when they have squibs they still aim just past the other actors? You cant tell in motion and it is a good safety practice
Baldwin was the producer of the movie on top of having done the actual shooting.
There was some union kerfuffle from what I remember, the union armorors were striking or protesting the safety standards on set. This was not the first accidental discharge on the set (there were 3 previous, they were blank. 2 times previous the actor handling the gun was told it was cold even though it had blanks - i.e. was told nothing was loaded but they were in fact loaded with blanks).
There shouldn’t be live armmo on a set. I don’t know why it was brought on. The scab armorers brought it on. I don’t remember their explanation but I remember thinking it was dumb as fuck.
Baldwin bears some responsibility for allowing safety to go so lax as producer. If you were just an actor and someone handed you a live gun, but you had every reason to think it was a prop gun that was not loaded with live ammo, you wouldn’t face a murder charge I don’t think- cause you’d have reasonably expected the armorer to ensure safety, you would’ve checked and seen it loaded but reasonably could have thought it was a blank or dummy. But Baldwin is in deeper shit cause he was in charge of armorers as the producer.
Edit: also, apparently the armorer previously had a discharge on a different movie that made Nicholas Cage walk off. I didnt hear the details.
I thought I remember hearing some people just wanted to use the same guns to shoot for real during off-time.
Baldwin bears some responsibility for allowing safety to go so lax as producer.
Sounds like he bears most of the responsibility, fuck him.
