Over at The Zelman Partisans, I’ve written a little about just who should be held responsible, and how, for Alec Baldwin’s killing of one and wounding of another. More stories keep coming out about the armorer.
If this is accurate, “Armorer” Hannah Gutierrez Reed has some problems. TMZ.com is claiming:
Multiple sources directly connected to the ‘Rust’ production tell TMZ … the same gun Alec Baldwin accidentally fired — hitting the DP and director — was being used by crews members off set as well, for what we’re told amounted to target practice.
We’re told this off-the-clock shooting — which was allegedly happening away from the movie lot — was being done with real bullets … which is how some who worked on the film believe a live round found its way in one of the chambers that day.
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There’s also this … one source who was on set and familiar with the goings-on of the crew tells us that when cops showed up, they found live ammo and blanks were being stored in the same area — another possible explanation for how an actual bullet slipped got in the gun.
I’m leery of unnamed sources, but this is consistent with other claims of lax-to-downright-sloppy on-set procedures.
Again, if true, was Reed allowing this? Or was she simply leaving the firearms unsecured? Why live ammo; was it so that crew members had supplies for recreational shooting? Does the insurance company know? Miss Reed appears to be well into “reckless.”
Then there’s this NYPost report.
The “inexperienced” armorer in charge of weapons on the set of Alec Baldwin’s movie “Rust” had given a gun to an 11-year-old actress without checking property for safety, a report said.
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“She was reloading the gun on the ground, where there were pebbles and stuff,” one source told the outlet. “We didn’t see her her check it, we didn’t know if something got in the barrel or not.”
This incident allegedly occurred on set for the movie “The Old Way.”
If there’s any question, you check. If people will give sworn depositions confirming these incidents, Reed had best start working on a plea deal. And then there’s the civil liability all around.
Glad I ain’t them. But if I was them, it wouldn’t have happened, because I’m not an idiot.
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