![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “But then I would take the guns back and I would check them before I returned them as set guns.”Ĭinematographers Group Calls for Ban of Functional Firearms on Sets After ‘Rust’ Tragedy “If you were shooting a Western and the actors were unfamiliar with the firearms, if they came to me and said, ‘Hey, during lunch can you spare 30 minutes and take me out and give me a shooting lesson?’ and there was a safe place to go off set, I wouldn’t think that was unreasonable,” Wolf said. But those guns would have to be thoroughly checked before being brought back onto set, and the live ammunition would never come near the film set. TheWrap reported in the wake of the “Rust” tragedy that the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins had earlier that day been used for target practice, or “plinking.” And Wolf said that there have been instances in which he has been asked by actors for practice with shooting and live firearms in a safe spot away from set. So there were at least three opportunities where someone could’ve checked the gun.” “The armorer did not check it, the first AD did not check it and Alec Baldwin did not check it. Wolf said that it isn’t hard to physically figure out how a live round wound up on set, but the more important question is why - why did someone feel it was appropriate to do so, and why wasn’t the gun properly checked by someone first? ‘Rust’ Armorer’s Lawyers Suggest ‘Sabotage’ to Blame for Live Bullet in Alec Baldwin’s Gun
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