re: Guns on movie sets: “Unreasonable and unrealistic” to expect actor to check load

This wasn't the first one on that set! There were three negligent discharges prior to the fatal one, according to a text from a camera grip.



If there is one negligent discharge, you gather the entire crew for a come to Jesus talk about safety. If there are two, someone needs to be fired. But no one was, production wasn't even paused, which is why the camera crew walked. This was probably a financial decision; it was a cheap movie that budgeted for a certain number of man-hours and stopping/resuming to replace a crew member would've added to the cost.

Baldwin, the actor, is not at fault here. The armorer and the AD are supposed to be the two sets of eyes. Baldwin, the producer, is at fault here, for continuing to rush an obviously unsafe production in order to avoid paying the cost of additional filming days and replacing whoever was responsible for the earlier incidents. Hutchins' estate will absolutely take him and everyone else with a producer credit to the cleaners on this.