The armorer was a nepobaby who’s father was a far more experienced armorer. I don’t doubt it was almost entirely her fault.
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Not to be a downer or anything, but I feel like the person who challenged the story wasn't really in the wrong here?
It's not that the story isn't true or the person who reported it isn't who they said it was. It's that, they didn't mention their credentials right off. Now that we're living in an era when misinformation is rife, especially now that some people appear poised to flood us with a sea of LLM-generated shit, citations and backing up your information up front are becoming more important.
People make confident and bold assertions all the time. Some of them will know what they're talking about, but some of them won't, and many times they'll look the same until someone challenges them.
Well, that's how I see it anyway.
Every range I did in the military, they stressed that everyone on the range was a safety officer, and that anyone can call cease fire at any time if they felt conditions were unsafe. So yeah, that's how I see it.
Amongst all the huhbub and finger pointing, the actual first rule of guns is always check that the gun is loaded.
You check the chamber and you check the ammo.
At no point should there ever be live ammo on a movie shoot. Whether that Baldwin's fault for hiring a shitty armorer, I don't know. But there where many failures up and down the line. If the assistant director was also supposed to check, they also failed.
But at the end of the line, Alec Baldwin picked up the gun and didn't or couldn't identify that the gun was loaded with live ammunition and pulled the trigger while it was pointed at someone. And that person died.
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This is one of those few times where quite literally over 50 million Americans could have done a better job than the armorer.