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Gutierrez brought it on the set and mixed it in with dummy rounds. Why anyone would hire her to be the Armorer on set is beyond me. She was far more than reckless.

That woman had no respect for gun safety at all.

As one person put it, the actors and weapon handlers were playing Russian Roulette with live and dummy rounds.

The prosecution remarked that there was mountains of circumstantial evidence that Gutierrez brought the live rounds onto the set.

And Gutierrez asked her lawyers to ask the dead woman's husband and child to speak on Gutierrez's behalf???? This woman has no remorse.

Why the f would you bring live ammo to the set?

I read something about this early on.

I put "sense" in quotes because a sensible person would go to a proper shooting range rather than use a movie set. And a sensible armorer would know how the keep live rounds separated from the blanks.

Frankly, I haven't really followed this all to closely except that I know the Fox news crowd really wants Baldwin behind bars because he was to irresponsible and reckless. Weird that they don't seem to care about the hundreds of other gun deaths in the US. Oh, maybe it's because he's a librul.

Chaotic production, non union, live target practice w real bullets in same guns as used when Alex Balwin shot the director in a needlessly reckless staging shot of a loaded gun. Doesn't matter how live bullets got in there if we discuss how the test shot was unnessary on many levels. Sorry, he might be left of center but this was his fault. Many had quit the production that very week over flagrant safety dangers, professionals quit as they felt unsafe enough to quit mid production.

You realize he’s in trouble because he made fun of Trump, right?

The laws says that is illegal, the person holding the gun is responsible for its safety. It doesn't matter what a movie producer told him or what the entertainment industries rules are none of that changes the law. If he had attended the mandatory safety meeting he might have known that.

If you don’t like Alec Baldwin just say so. But many of the statements here are conjecture, and some are incorrect. If you have extensive knowledge beyond what’s publicly available then cite it so all can appreciate your unique insight. Thanks.

I will have to dig and find the articles that back up that folks quit over safety that very week, non union is with out argument. I'll find where I read that pointing the gun at a human is a film set no no. No inside info but I came in with suspicions when I heard the issues on that set.
Here is an archive from LA Times about the crew who quit over the safety and chaos. https://archive.is/ikjY2

Sympathy out to all concerned.

Without judgement on my part.

(You do realize America has a gun culture problem, and accidents like this happen all the time?)

"The most dangerous gun is an unloaded gun"

The fact that a person is dead because of her utter incompetence and irresponsibility makes me think she deserves more.