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On 3/7/2024 4:40 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <usd4m9$17bvi$1@dont-email.me>, Alan Smithee <alms@last.inc>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 03/07/2024 01:42 PM, EGK wrote:
>>> On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 09:59:02 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://deadline.com/2024/03/rust-movie-armorer-guilty-shooting-death-12358
>>>> 47983/
>>>
>>> Classic example of shit rolling downhill and our two-tiered justice system.
>>> Baldwin is "loose" with weapons on the set and he fires the fatal shot but
>>> because he hired a young and very inexperienced armorer, she ends up being
>>> the perfect scapegoat.
>>
>> Did you watch the trial yesterday? She was quoted as saying she could
>> not be responsible for everyone on the set. Even tho it is her job to be
>> responsible.
>>
>> Baldwin should be held accountable, but he will likely walk.
> 
> Once upon a time, I spent an afternoon on the CSI:HORATIO set as a
> technical advisor (the episode dealt with counterfeit currency and they
> took none of my advice regarding how what they were doing wasn't
> accurate in any way), and in every scene with guns, as soon as they
> yelled cut, the armorer zipped in and took everyone's pistols and put
> them on a table over in the corner of the sound stage. He stood watch
> over them until the resets were done and they were ready to go again,
> then he handed them all back out again.**
> 
> (I do not know if there was a separate sunglass wrangler for David
> Caruso.)
> 
> The armorer guy went white as a sheet near the end of the day when it
> came to his attention that I'd been sitting on set all afternoon with an
> actual loaded handgun under my suit coat.
> 
> Based on what I saw that day and how firearms are treated on set by a
> responsible armorer, Baldwin should never have been playing around with
> a gun outside of an actual filmed scene, and certainly shouldn't have
> been pointing it at people. What possible reason could he have had for
> pointing it at the director and the DP?

Was he not rehearsing a scene that called for him to point the gun at 
the camera and then to "fire"?  If he was, then I can buy that he did no 
worse than most movie actors would've.