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Originally Posted by craigster59
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.
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I understand all of that, and will not argue against any of it.
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Originally Posted by craigster59
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.
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There has recently been a new twist introduced into all of this. That YouTube video, wherein she is seen grabbing loose rounds from a fanny pack, was designed to do just that. Remember, that video was made while they were shooting another scene entirely. Likely made on a different day than the fatal shooting as well. It achieved its objective by insinuating that that was what happened immediately prior to the fatal shooting, by trying to portray that level of chaos and hurry as "typical" on that set.
Let's not forget, however, that the Assistant Director, just prior to that fatal shooting, picked the gun up off a table and handed it to Baldwin. It was before they had started shooting, there was no rush, and Gutierrez-Reed
was not even on the set. She was not hurriedly fumbling in her fanny pack to reload that revolver. This distinction is very important.
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Originally Posted by craigster59
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.
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Abso-freaking-lutely it would have "interrupted the chain of custody"!!!!!!! That's what we want!!!
Everyone who touches any firearm under any circumstances checks its condition (loaded or unloaded?). Every. Single. Goddamned. Time. Again, it takes
seconds to do so.
Seconds. It's so bloody simple and easy there can be no excuse for failing to do so.
How many here believe that poor woman would still be alive today had Baldwin taken just a few seconds to check that revolver?