The investigation into what happened on the set of Alec Baldwin’s new film “Rust” is ongoing. There are a lot of questions and very few answers at this point. What we’ve been told by countless publications is that the crew would frequently use the gun that Alec Baldwin shot and killed his cinematographer with for “target practice” when they were bored. This might explain how a live round got into the gun.
The Wrap reported that the gun that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins last Thursday was used by crew members that morning for live-ammunition target practice, an individual with knowledge of the set told TheWrap.
A number of crew members had taken prop guns from the New Mexico set of the indie Western — including the gun that killed Hutchins — to go “plinking,” a hobby in which people shoot at beer cans with live ammunition to pass the time, the insider said.
The shooting happened just a few hours later, when lead actor and producer Alec Baldwin discharged a revolver after first assistant director David Halls confirmed that it was a “cold gun,” meaning that the gun did not have any live ammunition in it.
But here’s where things get dicey and really serious. The Armorer who was in charge of the guns on the set has finally broken her silence, and what she’s saying is actually bone-chilling.
She claims that she actually checked the gun before setting it out for Alec Baldwin, and when she did, there was no “live bullet” in it. So, she’s now wondering, who is the person who put a live round in the chamber after she looked it and why.
Yes, good question…
Newsmax reported that the woman in charge of weapons on the movie set where actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins said Wednesday night that she had inspected the gun Baldwin shot but doesn’t know how a live bullet ended up inside.
“Who put those in there and why is the central question,” Hannah Gutierrez Reed, the armorer for the movie “Rust” said in a statement issued by one of her lawyers, Jason Bowles of Albuquerque, New Mexico. “Hannah kept guns locked up, including throughout lunch on the day in question (Oct. 21), and she instructed her department to watch the cart containing the guns when she was pulled away for her other duties or on a lunch break.”
The statement goes on to say that “Hannah did everything in her power to ensure a safe set. She inspected the rounds that she loaded into the firearms that day. She always inspected the rounds.”
The statement adds that she inspected the rounds before handing the firearm to assistant director David Halls “by spinning the cylinder and showing him all of the rounds and then handing him the firearm.”
“No one could have anticipated or thought that someone would introduce live rounds into this set,” Gutierrez Reed’s statement said.
Hannah goes on to say that she actually did “gun safety” training directly with Alec Baldwin. She also claims that she “fought” for more training days and specifically told Baldwin not to point a gun at anyone.
Hannah is now blaming the movie’s producers for what happened.
And the top producer for the movie is none other than Alec Baldwin himself.
