Experts predict the legal fallout from the Alec Baldwin prop gun shooting

As armorer on ‘Rust,’ Hannah Gutierrez Reed was in charge of the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. At 24, her inexperience has been called into question.refers to a gun being loaded with some material such as a blank ready for filming, a source close to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees told The Times., could not be reached for comment. The 24-year-old is the daughter of veteran armorer Thell Reed and had recently completed her first film.

Baldwin’s stunt double accidentally fired two rounds Oct. 16 after being told the gun was “cold,” two crew members who witnessed the incident said. A colleague alarmed by the misfires sent a text message to the unit production manager, The Times reported. “The safety of our cast and crew is the top priority of Rust Productions and everyone associated with the company,” the statement said. It added: “We will be conducting an internal review of our procedures while production is shut down. We will continue to cooperate with the Santa Fe authorities in their investigation and offer mental health services to the cast and crew during this tragic time.

“What safety protocols did they have in place?” said Stuart Fraenkel of Nelson & Fraenkel, who has represented clients including Olivia Jackson, the stuntwoman badly injured in an accident while filming “Resident Evil: The Final Chapter.” “Did they have safety meetings? We don’t know that yet.”

A very unusual set of circumstances, why were live rounds on the set when hollow dummy rounds are used for realism... Many other questions need to be investigated and answered.

The AD (Assistant Director) is at fault. He should’ve never crossed department boundaries, but he took it upon himself to play prop master and Weapons Armorer as well. This isn’t his first time, it will all come out in the wash.

Well yeah of course there needs to be criminal charges. There were so many fk ups in this cluster fk it’s not even funny. The armorer and baldwin specifically need to be criminally charged. There was absolutely zero firearms safety being practiced.

Duh... a person died for christs sake. Either someone didnt care enough to do their due diligence, or someone put in a real bullet on purpose. Both sound like someone is responsible.

horrible

It is very unlikely that any of the people who worked on the movie had any idea of what was going on. This is a case of the mass hysteria from the public and a lot of the accusations are not true.

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