re: 'Rust' armorer breaks silence, blames producers for unsafe conditions

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I think you might be technically right but he's a total idiot for not double checking it himself, I don't care if the pope told him it was empty.

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Actors don't check guns as they aren't expected to be experts in handling one. That is why you have the armorer and assistant director, supposedly with specific expertise.

The ole bathroom stall background selfie.
Olan Mills missed out on a golden opportunity back in the day.
Should have offered this with their fences, bookshelves and plain grey backgrounds.

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She didn’t know what she was doing and had no business being in charge of guns.

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I don't know how many of you people worked around show biz folks but I did a lot of part time jobs with traveling productions coming in and local theater while in college. It was all backstage work in construction.
Those people are dangerous with a hammer or saw, much less a gun.
They are a mix of hyperactive, uncoordinated and stupid. It's an accident waiting to happen.

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So she’s not responsible for the responsibilities of her one job?!

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This might get interesting.

She had "a job", but there's a ton of questionable info coming out.
Big thing being, she wasn't on set during this accident.

So, "her job" is to secure the firearms being used as props, but apparently SOMEONE ELSE had access to them, too.

I can fully understand her saying "hey, it wasn't on me". If she states that she wasn't there, she can also state they should not have ever been touching that revolver. Someone else basically broke into her gun safe without her knowledge, and removed something without her present.

This would be like if someone other than the pyrotechnic guy rigs up some explosives, then blows up a few people. You try to pin it on the guy whose job it was to do that, he will say "look, I didn't do that, I wasn't even on set. I have no idea why they would do that, but you ain't pinning it on me".

What's coming out is that somebody broke chain of custody; curious who that was.

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She didn’t know what she was doing

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Common statement when "diversity" is ever considered in hiring practices.

She looks like someone who spends so much time being "woke", that she doesn't pay attention to anything else.

Isn’t Baldwin the producer? His company hired her no?

So he’s responsible for everything. The hiring of said retard and not checking the gun himself

Producers and her jointly and severally liable civilly.

Baldwin needs to catch a negligent homicide charge.

I have heard that there was a safe for the guns in a truck. She and some else both had access to the safe.

If she was not there, I can see her skating. But then again there are reportedly a mix of blanks and real ammo on the set. Not even kept separated.

IF this is her only boofoo then they MIGHT let her skate free.

EVERYTHING I have posted is third hand information and subject to being complete horse shite.

Some of the 'facts' have changed as this story evolved.

Regardless of the rest of the facts, IF Alec Baldwin pointed the gun at her for no good reason and pulled the trigger, then he should be convicted.

Of course there is no reason stopping more than one person from facing charges.

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I have heard that there was a safe for the guns in a truck. She and some else both had access to the safe.

If she was not there, I can see her skating.

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I can see that too, and it's a just move.

Why, and how, are they accessing the prop weapons, when she is not there?

I mean-

AB: It's your fault! You handed me a loaded gun!
Armorer: Umm, I called in sick that day, chief. And just how in the frick are you getting into my locked safe, when I'm supposed to be the only one who can do that?
AB: Oh. We wanted to rehearse, and I kept a spare key to your safe. It's your fault! You should have been there!

I can't see them pinning this on her.