Alec Baldwin fired prop gun that led to death on movie set (according to authorities)

[45caldan]

How does something like this happen!?
He'll probably use his stupidity to push for gun control...
https://nypost.com/2021/10/21/2-injured ... film-rust/

[Legio]

How does something like this happen!?

Hire professionals, not low pay vaccinated wannabees.

He'll probably use his stupidity to push for gun control...

If you're anti-gun then maybe don't play in movies where you shoot guns.

[lakelandman]

Woke Hollywood at it again.

[BerettaRacer]

It happened to Bruce Lee's son, Brandon Lee, back in the 90's on the movie set for "The Crow".
Something to the effect there unknowingly was a squib in the barrel, then a full power blank pushed the squib just like a live round.

[N4KVE]

Prop guns fire blanks, gunpowder charges that produce a flash and a bang but not a hard projectile. But when the trigger is pulled, the paper or plastic wadding is ejected from the barrel with enough force that it can be lethal at close range, as proved to be the case in the death of an actor in 1984. In another on-set accident in 1993, the actor son of martial arts star Bruce Lee was killed after a bullet was left in a prop gun. GARY.

[OSD]

Sometimes real firearms are used in scenes(using blanks), especially when shooting close-up scenes for effect, look, and feel.

[REDinFL]

I dunno. When I hand a weapon to someone, I check it, even if I checked it a minute before. When someone hands me a weapon, I check it, even if it's someone I trust. I guess it's just me. Baldwin wants to tell others what to do, even though it's obvious he doesn't know what he's talking about.

[Flame Red]

Sometimes real firearms are used in scenes(using blanks), especially when shooting close-up scenes for effect, look, and feel.

Gee, too bad some of the HollyKommie's idiots don't put a blank to their own head and pull the trigger. Maybe they would cured them of being hypocrites hopefully permanently. Nah! After all, they all KNOW that blanks are harmless!

[Big_mike]

Brandon Lee died from a crimped blank cartridge case separation, the crimp never opened and a piece of brass became a projectile.

According to IATSE, Alec Baldwin fired a live round from the 'prop' pistol and claimed he did not know it was loaded. It doesn't sound like a blank failure.

Many prop pistols have a chamber obstruction like a pin through the throat to prevent a live round from chambering. Sounds like they used a real firearm and called it a prop pistol.

[Bmup]

"Why was I handed a hot gun?" Baldwin says.
https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/alec-bald ... -shooting/

So let me get this straight; two directors are on a movie set & filming, right? Baldwin shoots both & one of them dies, right? So when did Hollywood directors put themselves into a scene that is being filmed and why was Baldwin aiming at both of them when he pulled the trigger?

Twice.

Also,being a Western, I'm assuming he was handed a period correct revolver - wouldn't that have been a single action pistol? He would have to have pulled the hammer back twice to fire twice.

My bet is that he was clowning on set when he "shot" them just for laughs.