Capitol Hill Blue Forums Thread Like Summary - In production movie Rust

So I guess we are all aware of the in production Alec Baldwin movie to be called Rust. And of course the misfortune that happened in the shooting…so to speak..,during the filming. Something seems very wrong here. I have been around firearms for a long part of my life and know how to use them. I am not a gun nut but I know quite a bit about them.

So I ask myself “how could what they call an armoror (is that how you spell it?) someone who is supposed to be in control of the safety, handling, and distribution of all the firearms used on a set let a hot loaded gun be handed to the actor Baldwin? This simply does not make sense. Either the armorers were profoundly negligent, or somebody deliberately loaded a hot real bullet into the gun. Otherwise nothing makes sense to me in this unfortunate event.

Jeff, I would like you to weigh in here.

It was a union production but six principal IATSE union members walked off in the early hours, specifically citing safety gripes, particularly gun safety.
The armorer who handed the gun to Baldwin was a rookie who had only been lead armorer on one other movie before. After the walkoff, producers hired NON-UNION replacements.