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I agree that the armorer is ultimately at fault from a professional standpoint, but obviously Baldwin pulled the trigger. Since it was the armorers' entire responsibility to make sure that the use of the firearm on set was safe. Any touching of the gun prior to filming should have been done completely in the supervision of the armorer, and there should have been 0 live ammunition on set.
That armorer looked/sounded like a total idiot who was promoted to her position to fulfill a diversity quota and competence wasn't a hiring requirement.
I know, I get it, "you pick up a gun, you are responsible for it… yada yada yada" - but that is not movie production. Actors who hold guns in movies are not "gun people." It's a prop. They literally take classes to learn how not to look like a total idiot holding the gun - but they still don't know the difference between wad cutters and blanks.
Baldwin is a major jack bubblegum, I don't like him, I don't care about him, but regarding whose at fault. The professional responsibility of avoiding that outcome was the armorers. Baldwin is of course the one who pulled the trigger, but that typically would be a non-issue if the armorer had been competent.
(Just a guy who regularly sees dummy rounds with no primers in movies and can understand what the point of having the armorer on the movie set is for)
That armorer looked/sounded like a total idiot who was promoted to her position to fulfill a diversity quota and competence wasn't a hiring requirement.
I know, I get it, "you pick up a gun, you are responsible for it… yada yada yada" - but that is not movie production. Actors who hold guns in movies are not "gun people." It's a prop. They literally take classes to learn how not to look like a total idiot holding the gun - but they still don't know the difference between wad cutters and blanks.
Baldwin is a major jack bubblegum, I don't like him, I don't care about him, but regarding whose at fault. The professional responsibility of avoiding that outcome was the armorers. Baldwin is of course the one who pulled the trigger, but that typically would be a non-issue if the armorer had been competent.
(Just a guy who regularly sees dummy rounds with no primers in movies and can understand what the point of having the armorer on the movie set is for)