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To my simple mind, this is simple stuff. If someone handed me a handgun and then I kill another person with that handgun, it would not matter what the person told me that handed me the handgun. Simple little me would be arrested and booked for a minimum of involuntary manslaughter. That is because I am not a liberal and I am not a rich actor, the rules are different - very, very simple stuff.

Roknstevo said:

I read an update to the shooting investigation. I will paraphrase...the young lady who was the “armorer” on the set is reported to have said that she wasn’t ready for the job. She also said that she was very afraid to load weapons with blanks. She is the daughter of some famous armorer out there in lala land. ***???? Sounds pretty scary to me.....however not surprising considering where they are operating. If I were an actor out there I would definitely be checking my own weapons. Why on earth do they not hire qualified veterans to oversee these idiots? I guess they can’t stomach being around them. My $.02......

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I heard a different version.

I hate Alec Baldwin as much as anybody but that stuff just sounds like a rumor to me.

South Prairie Jim said:

I heard a different version

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Yeah, a but different here.
A lot can be inferred when paraphrasing.

If I were an actor out there I would definitely be checking my own weapons

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Back in the day actors were intimately familiar with firearms. Audie Murphey was a decorated WW2 vet. As was Jimmy Stewart. Etc.

At the very least, they grew up in a time of a proliferation of guns and easy availability of hunting grounds.

Dennis Hopper, for example, personally owned guns.



These "actors" today are an entirely different breed. At best, we can maybe expect them to know which end of the gun the bullet exits, but I would not be surprised if many/most would not even know the difference between a bullet loaded with a double based wadcutter and a blank. For example. And when it comes to checking a semi auto, even worse.

IMO.

SunnySlopes said:

...I would not be surprised if many/most would not even know the difference between a bullet loaded with a double based wadcutter and a blank.

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Would any of the current crop of fast - draw tacticle goateed types know, for that matter?

Roknstevo said:

Why on earth do they not hire qualified veterans to oversee these idiots?

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It's a budget thing. Same reason they were working without union help.

What we have in this thread so far are generalized summaries of old news that has been thoroughly hashed out previously on THR.

This article sheds light on the OP's topic plus insight from people who worked with her.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...3/hannah-gutierrez-reed-rust-shooting-armorer

I once knew a veteran that managed to jam an AR15 pretty bad -he followed the handle down, and when it didn't fire, he can doing "tactical racks" and ended up jamming bullets into the cases. After a while of struggling, another guy tried to help..... help he didn't want. Now there were two guys fighting over a rifle with the bolt locked back, a round in the chamber, the mag half out. That would be bad enough, but one guy was trying to wrestle it out of the other guys hands. He had one hand over the muzzle, gripping it like a baseball. The other guy was holding down on the grip/trigger.
The point here, being a veteran not a guarantee. Just like cops shooting themselves in the leg. Expertise is a skill you have to want, not be required to get buy "good enough" with.