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Originally Posted by FOG
Craigster,
Your analogy of the rented car is wrong. Checking the firearm status as too whether or not it is loaded is analogous to a walk around of the car to look for flat tires and other major problems, it is faster to check the firearm than a walk-around. Your analogy to putting the car on a lift for an inspection is more along the lines of a function check, again far more involved and longer on a car than firearm.
As far as chain of custody being broken by conducting a safety check I am at a loss for words on that level of SNAFU.
S/F, FOG
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It would still involve unloading the firearm and checking each round for the rattle of a BB or a hole in the side of the casing and then reloading. Dummy rounds do not necessarily have spent primers. Time is money when filming and that's why you employ someone who's specific job is to make sure all firearms are safe and secured.
It was the armorers job to have the guns secured prior to filming and to load the dummy rounds in front of cast and crew. That did not happen.
All of you seem to think this was like a Saturday afternoon at the Rod & Gun Club. There should have been NO live ammunition anywhere near the film set.
Next you're going to insist that all actors should personally inspect any fake explosives with timers in a James Bond film "Just to make sure it's not real C-4". Alec Baldwin could have inspected the gun himself every time it was handed to him and it wouldn't have done any good. He's not a "firearms expert". Unfortunately neither was the armorer that HE hired and for that he has some responsibility.