Actor Alec Baldwin Kills One Person, Wounds Another When Prop-Gun 'Misfires'
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NBC article providing cover for Baldwin made a bizarre reference to Hunt for Red October
"If you swap out the idea of guns on a set for something else, though, the relative responsibility between the actor and the crew becomes clearer. Consider one of Baldwin’s other films, “The Hunt for Red October,” a thriller about nuclear submarines. Imagine the script called for an actor on the set of the submarine’s bridge to push a red button. But instead of prop missiles on the submarine, a crew member thought it would be more realistic to use actual Soviet-era SS-20 ballistic missiles connected to that red button. When the actor pushes the button, he’s shocked when it actually launches the missiles, causing catastrophic harm."
Alec Baldwin fires prop gun, killing Halyna Hutchins. But who's responsible?
His case may be one of the rare exceptions in which the person shooting the gun might be the least responsible party.www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org
Was that an actual submarine in the movie or a movie set .?
gemma_rae
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Inject them with some unknown chemical cocktail and force them onto an Alec Baldwin movie set? Just a guess.
I'm going to add this, just in case.
(Not aimed at you PJay)
gemma_rae
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These people are frightening. Seriously frightening.
black dog
Free America
I once knew a girl with a No Go Zone...
A lot of them have at least one.
black dog
Free America
Interesting....
black dog
Free America
The first one is the NO.... you, are not putting THAT in there.
Has anyone said why a live round was in a prop gun in the first place? One would think a prop gun would never be loaded with real ammo, because why would it be?
LightRoasted
If I may ...
If I may ...
Nope. Not yet. But then again, there should never be real live ammunition on a film production set to begin with since they are never used.
PeoplesElbow
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As in the case of Brandon Lee they wanted to show the bullets, they removed the charge from the shell but not the primer, it made the bullet go into the barrel a little, they never removed it, they then put in a blank with a full charge, that full charge propelled the projectile in the barrel to kill him.
It' seems they have no protocols, just someone to handle it. They should have a check list they do every time, but it doesnt appear they do.
UglyBear
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Meh...
Artsy with a darkish side. Almost mainstream really.
The first one is an amusing drawing combining Alice In Wonderland with Soviet upbringing and the Bolshevik Revolution .
WingsOfGold
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Poetic Justice............ Trump pays millions to a lawyer to prosecute Baldwin on the dead womans families behalf for manslaughter and wins.
He was always such a prick to him on SNL so call it fair play.
He was always such a prick to him on SNL so call it fair play.
black dog
Free America
Ahhhh. Usually guns have loaded ammo, So someone could get shot or killed.
Winner on both counts.
Hijinx
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Playing with guns is not smart.
They were not filming, they were just standing around talking and the ass whole was playing with the gun.
You never play with a gun, whether it is known to be empty or not.
It's just something every intelligent gun owner knows.
And the first rule, the very first rule is never point any gun at something you do not want to shoot.
By the way the gun did not misfire. It worked exactly the way it was supposed to.
They were not filming, they were just standing around talking and the ass whole was playing with the gun.
You never play with a gun, whether it is known to be empty or not.
It's just something every intelligent gun owner knows.
And the first rule, the very first rule is never point any gun at something you do not want to shoot.
By the way the gun did not misfire. It worked exactly the way it was supposed to.
black dog
Free America
Like I posted upthread, if I were to hand you a handgun and told you its unloaded and safe, would you check it first before you stuck it in your temple and pulled the trigger?
Its a very interesting law, lets see how it all shakes out with Alex's decades of handling of firearms with the District Attorney's Office with what charges are filed or not filed..
Alex broke a few of the basic firearm rules.
And the civil suits will be costly to a few folks.