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?
Comment on Alec Baldwin's Rust Case Is Over, Prosecutor Drops Manslaughter Appeal
RedC@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks agoWhat exactly do you mean? He’s an actor. My point is that that doesn’t absolve you of firearm safety
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
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.
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.