Alec Baldwin Shoots Dead Production Manager on Set

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A bizarre story emerging - reminiscent of Brandon Lee's death on the Crow set. A production manager killed and a seriously injured Producer.

Sounds like a terrible accident?
 
Director of Photography shot dead and director injured. Sounds quite horrific. Alec Baldwin in bits by all accounts.
 
I feel so bad for Alec Baldwin, the poor b****d, this accident will haunt him for the rest of his life.

Obviously it's a horrible tragedy for the the woman killed too, and her family.

I wonder what happened to lead to two people being injured/killed by it.
 
As with many matters the difference in regulations between US and EU can be a gulf, in fact with US States laws it can be varied over there to the same degree. Suffice to say it's not as simple as real guns blank rounds.
 
Until James Cagney refused in one of his earlier films LIVE bullets were used on set for Realism...😮 His refusal led to blanks replacing them in all films
 
Someone somewhere will be sat in the Dock soon...probably a set worker whose job it was to place the blanks into the prop...what if the blanks had been Interfered with prior to being dispatched to the set...at the factory or store...who knows
Awful story ifeel bad for all of them
 
A school friend of mines Dad had some 17th Century replica guns. He would regularly bring them out and point them at me. For a laugh. But I was **** scared.
I stopped going round.

Even more scared when I read Mike Read's son was killed in a replica gun 'accident'
 
Some bloke was on Radio 4 earlier explaining how it works on set. Real guns and bullets but the projectile is removed. The gun still fires as usual. He was saying should there be something in the barrel that will become a projectile and cause serious injury.
 
I think since Lees death in the crow it is a legal requirement to have an armourer on set when guns are used.

I think Lee died because a real bullet had been in the gun a few days earlier and when the shell was removed the round had stayed in the barrel.

A few days later the same gun was used with a blank and the powder disloged the round left in the barrel killing Lee. There was no armourer on set that day.
 
As I said earlier laws and regulations can vary massively over there. I've tried to get on technical staff websites but they're all rammed, crashed or suspended. With our regulations this could simply not have happened, firearms used are either built or adapted for purpose and are never out of sight of the armourer until they lock them in their case to which they alone have access to, before then putting them into secure on site storage. Any ideas of simply putting a "blank" round into a regular gun are absolute non starters, you just wouldn't get past the first risk assessment, well not here anyway!
 
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