Aguila Blanca
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Brandon Herrera did a YouTube video on this incident, and he brought out a few points. He mentioned the inexperience of the armorer -- she's Thell Reeds daughter, but this is only her second film as a chief armorer, there were complaints about her lack of knowledge on the previous film, and -- be sure you are sitting down -- she had to call her father to ask how to load blanks into a six shooter.
There's problem number one.
Apparently on this location the prop guns were allowed to be used by the actors and crew for plinking between sets. That means there was live ammunition on the set -- which has been a HUGE no-no on film sets ever since Brandon Lees death.
There's problem number two.
According to Brandon Herrera (and I had read this in one of the early reports, too, a couple of days ago), the incident occurred between shoots. The scene had been shot, the director wanted to shoot another take, Baldwin didn't like that, and he responded by saying, "Maybe I should just shoot both of you," then he drew the gun, pointed it at them, and pulled the trigger. In other words, he intentionally pointed a gun at someone and he intentionally pulled the trigger. Sure, he thought it was a cold gun -- but this is exactly why both the NRA rules and Cooper's rules stress that ALL guns are to be treated as if they are loaded, and that we must NEVER point a gun at anyone or anything we are not willing to destroy. Mr. I'm-better-and-smarter-than-you-are Baldwin intentionally violated the basic rules of firearms safety -- as a joke.
Problem number 3.
There's problem number one.
Apparently on this location the prop guns were allowed to be used by the actors and crew for plinking between sets. That means there was live ammunition on the set -- which has been a HUGE no-no on film sets ever since Brandon Lees death.
There's problem number two.
According to Brandon Herrera (and I had read this in one of the early reports, too, a couple of days ago), the incident occurred between shoots. The scene had been shot, the director wanted to shoot another take, Baldwin didn't like that, and he responded by saying, "Maybe I should just shoot both of you," then he drew the gun, pointed it at them, and pulled the trigger. In other words, he intentionally pointed a gun at someone and he intentionally pulled the trigger. Sure, he thought it was a cold gun -- but this is exactly why both the NRA rules and Cooper's rules stress that ALL guns are to be treated as if they are loaded, and that we must NEVER point a gun at anyone or anything we are not willing to destroy. Mr. I'm-better-and-smarter-than-you-are Baldwin intentionally violated the basic rules of firearms safety -- as a joke.
Problem number 3.
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