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Why hasn't anyone suggested the AD just picked up the wrong gun?
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He seemed to think it was 'cold' so shouldn't have been loaded with anything
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The Armouror stated she loaded it with six dummy rounds after lunch, want to bet one of those was a dud Round, mistaken for a Dummy because it had an indentation on the primer?
In dummy rounds I have made I have replaced the primers with red Silicone or Green plastic, so you can tell they are dummy rounds. |
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Mind you I haven't been following this thread or the endless chatter in the media about this, but. . .I can see a small part of this accident easily happening. . .
The eye sometimes sees what the brain tells it to see. A couple of days ago I saw this back blob under my kitchen table and my brain told me it was my black cat. it turns out it was an old towel the other cat had dragged there to use as a bed. Had I not looked closer I might have left the house on an errand thinking the black cat was in the house and left the little boy out in the cold Kentucky rain. I can imagine an actor, upon being told that a gun is safe, believing it because that's how the actor thinks it's supposed to be. My understanding is that actors are supposed to check the firearm one last time. But I could imagine an actor looking down at a weapon and seeing what he thinks he is supposed to be there. What I can't figure is how a live round got within a a mile of the set. My understanding is that live rounds are just not needed in the film process anymore. And what possessed Baldwin to point the gun at somebody and pull the trigger during a rehearsal? I know he says he didn't pull the trigger, but I doubt his recollection. ------------------- Dope Clock II: It's been 183 days since Bobby Menard announced plans to create "Artists Valley". So far all he has done is lie through his teeth. |
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Why would that be so much of a problem, when seen in the context for an entire movie? You only have to make a bunch of these once, and can use them forever.
Heck! Make them a bit smaller in diameter and a bit shorter (not so much that it is visible) and put something of an insert in the cylinder (if revolver) or chamber (if pistol or rifle), so that these weapons only accept these particular sized rounds. That way it would not be possible for live rounds to be fed into the weapons, as these would simply be to large/long and you can still film those scenes where ammo has to be visibly handled. |
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There are forms of these "dud" cartridges that don't explode at all and are completely reusable, right? If they cost a bit more than a live round that would not be an obstacle. I don't exactly know what I'm looking at but I see dummy rounds at Amazon for one or two dollars apiece.
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The way this incident is described, I'm not sure they even went as far as relying on the armorer. This seems like it was more an exercise in ticking the box than an attempt to establish a reliable safety system.
All that was needed was for the person in charge of the barn door to close it before the horse escaped. All this rigamarole about a different breed of horse, or putting the door on tracks instead of hinges, is entirely beside the point. |
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The snap caps I have seen are red. I would imagine that a director with an eye for detail would want the parts of the cartridge that show (if you look really hard), the rim in the back of the cylinder and the bullet in the front to be painted so as to look genuine.
I am just blowing smoke here but if the cartridges were repainted to look real it would fit with my theory that an actor could look at a "hot" revolver and upon being told the gun was safe believe that it was so, since the dummy rounds or snap caps were remade to look real. Just a thought. ------------------ Dope Clock II: It's been 184 days since Bobby Menard announced plans to create "Artists Valley". So far all he has done is lie through his teeth. |
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If you replaced the primer with green plastic an accident like this is also Impossible, has anyone else read the search Warrant for Baldwin's phone?
The Armour stated their were Wanky Rounds in the Dummies, and that she didn't check the gun much after lunch because it was in a safe, that other people had access to the safe, and she didn't believe anyone would bring a live round on set. What we can determine is the sear was not busted during the time the Amourer loaded the last round at half Cock. That makes Baldwin's claim suspicious unless someone loaded in a live Round and dropped the gun, or someone loaded in a live round and rigged the gun. So either Baldwin is Lying, or the Gun is broken, or the gun was maliciously rigged. To be broken the gun would have had to be dropped while in a notch, safety half Cock, or third Notch, and it has to be dropped directly on the hammer on a hard surface. Guns were disabled by Banging them, hammer first at half cock on rail road tracks, in Army Trials to test the sears in the 1800s. |
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But then your starting position is still going from a working cartridge and a real weapon.
If these are omitted from the process, then it wouldn't matter if the armourer was lackluster in its duties, whether a safety was damaged/broken or not and so on. The primairy check would have to be, whether the prop (both cartridge and gun) used was one of the permanently disabled kinds and something of a mark, which could be easily felt, would be more than enough for that. Possibly something more than only this as a check, but you hopefully got the picture. |
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And why should we listen to them?
Lots of things in movies are fake, like explosions, stunts in general, money and phone numbers used. The way they even speak to eachother (especially those movies where they only speak in one liners) and that is alright. Why do guns have to be an exception and positively have to be real? |
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Yes, I know gun nuts want guns. That is what makes them gun nuts.
For the industry that is acting stories for on the big screen, there is no single good reason to use real weapons and real cartridges (in order to to make dummies). Not if there are alternatives that can look exactly like the real ones. |
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Yes, that would work. But the only challenge then would be using look alike guns to film scenes in which blanks are used simulate live rounds. The film makers could have different cylinders which they could install (it aint' that difficult) when they want to use blanks they could. But, then you are back to a situation where somehow a live round can be put in the cylinder.
As couple of other posters have commented the way around all this is to control the presence of live rounds on the set. The tale is that in the old days of westerns the colt single action was popular among film makers because it could function with dummies, blanks and live rounds. If you watch old westerns you'd think it was the only gun in the old west. ------------------ Dope Clock II: It's been 185 days since Bobby Menard announced plans to create "Artists Valley". So far all he has done is lie through his teeth. |
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And that's why all your rigamarole about modifying guns and bullets doesn't matter.
Why should we care? If a grown-ass adult wants to cavort with their real gun in the privacy of their own movie set, in the company of other consenting adults, why should it matter to us? All over the country this next week, people are going to be gathering together, taking out real guns, and brandishing them in the privacy of their homes. Many of them will be recorded by cameras. None of this is even remotely problematic (except to those who are nervous about the idea of private citizens possessing guns at all). |
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This whole case Is going to come down too did the gun go on half Cock when the Armourer loaded in the last round, and was it a functioning Gun?
If it went on half Cock when the Armourer loaded the last round but was broken, when Alec Baldwin cocked the Hammer back and comes back non functional then someone broke the gun on purpose or by dropping it. If it didn't go on half Cock then the Armourer is Negligent giving Baldwin a loaded and broken gun. The only other two possibilities are Baldwin is lying or someone knew how to expertly rig the trigger, wedge the Trigger on that gun. |
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I am ruining the tale, but Williams S. Hart used to carry a Colt New Service swing out revolver in some of his movies. He's have a Colt Army in one hand and the swing out in the other.
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item...revolver-18286 I don't think this was period accurate since the New Service was introduced in 1898 and Hart's model was manufactured in 1907. ------------------ Dope Clock II: It's been 185 days since Bobby Menard announced plans to create "Artists Valley". So far all he has done is lie through his teeth. |
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