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RandySF

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Wed Oct 27, 2021, 02:19 AM Oct 2021

Criminal Charges Possible in Shooting on Alec Baldwin Set, D.A. Says

SANTA FE, N.M. — The Santa Fe County district attorney said on Tuesday that she was not ruling out criminal charges in last week’s fatal shooting on a film set. The actor Alec Baldwin was rehearsing with a gun that he had been told did not contain live ammunition when it went off, killing the film’s cinematographer and wounding its director.

“We haven’t ruled out anything,” the district attorney, Mary Carmack-Altwies, said in a telephone interview. “Everything at this point, including criminal charges, is on the table.”

Ms. Carmack-Altwies said that the investigation was focusing on ballistics in an effort to determine what kind of round was in the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins, the cinematographer — and who had placed the ammunition in the gun.

“There were an enormous amount of bullets on this set, and we need to find out what kinds they were,” Ms. Carmack-Altwies said. Detectives said that they recovered three revolvers, spent casings and ammunition — in boxes, loose and in a fanny pack — while executing a search warrant on the set, according to an inventory of the items released on Monday. The inventory did not specify what kind of ammunition was found on the set.




https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/movies/criminal-charges-shooting-alec-baldwin.html

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Criminal Charges Possible in Shooting on Alec Baldwin Set, D.A. Says (Original Post) RandySF Oct 2021 OP
I'm no expert on film sets, nor guns on film sets, but having *any* "loose" ammunition seems like RockRaven Oct 2021 #1
WHY tf are there EVER rounds of live ammo on a movie set? I just don't get it cloudythescribbler Oct 2021 #2
Right, there is not supposed to be any live ammo on a movie set. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #3

RockRaven

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1. I'm no expert on film sets, nor guns on film sets, but having *any* "loose" ammunition seems like
Wed Oct 27, 2021, 02:31 AM
Oct 2021

exactly the sort of thing which one would prohibit -- by rule and by habit -- in order to avoid accidents which could kill people.

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