re: Alec Baldwin gets the old tweets being dug up treatment

As much as I don’t care for Baldwin, this is in no way his fault unless he messed with the gun prior to that scene. On any set, the actor should never have any part in loading/testing/modifying the gun aside from its use in that particular scene.

When doing scene rehearsals, they use a dummy gun/rubber gun and walk through everything to make sure people, cameras and so on are where they need to be. Once they are ready to roll film, the prop master will come on set announce there are hot guns on set and give the prop gun to the actor. They will immediately shoot the scene, the prop master will remove the gun and check it once again. At no point is anyone other that the prop master suppose to do anything to that gun.

Unless it comes back that Baldwin altered something after receiving the gun, this will more than likely for all the gun guy or someone working in that department.