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Originally Posted by Crowbob
Are you saying the FBI and the independent lab each received an intact firearm identical to the one Baldwin used and that both ended up broken?
Or are you saying the actual firearm used by Baldwin was broken and rebuilt?
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FBI and lab inspected the actual firearm. It was broken in testing from what I understand. That was the only way that the gun fired without pulling the trigger.
Look, I've spent 37 years in the business, working with props and have done many "gun heavy" films like Heat, Terminator 2, We Were Soldiers, American Sniper, NCIS Los Angeles and many more. There are times we had 3-5 armorers working on the shows.
You have safety meetings the morning of "gun days". You have safety meetings when the guns are brought on set. You yell "Hot Gun!" when handing it to an actor. You immediately take possession of the gun after the director says "cut!". All of these happen on a normal film set.
What doesn't happen is hiring an inexperienced 26 year old with purple and green hair to be your "firearms expert". That's Alec Baldwin's culpability as a producer in this tragedy.