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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Absolute nonsense. There is no equivalency between a firearm and a car. We covered this a couple of years ago in the context of a race car driver being expected to inspect their own car prior to a race, and put it to bed then. It failed to pass even the most cursory examination then, and it failed again today.
You keep going to the same well. The attempt to compare a man handling a firearm to someone getting in a car is absolutely ludicrous. Guns are different than anything else we handle and their rules are, therefor, necessarily different as well. And so painfully simple that even Hollywood actors should be able to abide by them. It would have taken less than two or three seconds to inspect that gun.
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The bottom line is that there is not supposed to be any live ammo on set, at a studio or on a prop truck.
NEVER. EVER.
Even the prosecutor said that when Gutierrez-Reed arrived on set, the camera department had walked off the job leaving over 3 hours of "down time". More than enough time to check the dummy rounds, secure them until needed. She failed to do that.
We have also gone over the protocol. She was supposed to take each round from a box labeled "dummy rounds" (not loose rounds from a fanny pack) and shake them in front of cast and crew, listening for the BB, and then loading them into the gun one by one. She failed to do that.
If AB had opened the action of the gun after she handed it to him, that would have interrupted the "chain of custody" and he could (and maybe still will) be responsible for Hutchins' death.