What exactly do you mean? He’s an actor. My point is that that doesn’t absolve you of firearm safety
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Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoWhat is his job in this case?
RedC@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Dkarma@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes but his point is that Baldwin wasn’t responsible for firearms safety on the set at all he was just an actor the armorer is the one who’s responsible. Just like the person who hires the Hitman is responsible for the death the person who is the armorer on the set is responsible for this person’s death.
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Rule #1 of firearms safety is to not point a gun at anything you don’t want to shoot.
How the fuck would that work in a movie, exactly?
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Easy, by not using real guns
weew@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Lots and lots of cuts, lol
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
What’s the actor going to check? How heavy it is? They don’t have a clue.
If by “check” you mean somebody who is an expert or is informed by experts makes a judgement about the weapon and announces it, that happened.
Court submissions say assistant director David Halls did not know the gun contained live ammunition, and indicated it was unloaded by shouting “cold gun!”
The armourer who provided the weapon did receive a manslaughter conviction. It was their responsibility, and they either screwed up or let themselves get bullied into screwing up by the asshat AD.
It is revealed assistant director David Halls had been sacked from a previous production, war drama Freedom’s Path, over gun safety violations in 2019.
abcnews.go.com/US/…/story?id=98268586
He was sentenced already for negligence.
grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not shooting his coworkers, for starters.
Also, IIRC he was the producer or something as well as an actor, so he was the firearms handler’s boss and ultimately in charge of everything including on-set safety to begin with.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As an actor in the same movie hes not allowed to adjust weaponry on set or his whole production would be uninsurable.
The weaponmaster is where the buck stops.
RedC@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
As a producer in the same movie he also has a duty to make sure the weapon master knows what they’re doing. Again I’m not saying he’s the only one responsible, but to me the buck stops with the guy who pulled the trigger.
Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It doesnt matter what you think.
On set heirarchy exists for a reason and that reason has resulted in only two gun related deaths since 1993.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Well yeah, he did. The person is a credentialed expert, and he delegated all responsibilities to that person.