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Originally Posted by daveT
I was talking to a friend who works in the industry. He said, from what little he read, it was a folly of mistakes.
According to him, there is no time an actual bullet should ever be on set. Apparently, the armorer or prop master wasn't on set at the time, and the AD handed Baldwin the gun and said "cold round."
I'm not entirely clear on what "hot round" and "cold round" means. Calling it an actual bullet sounds a little premature to me. Sounds like the crew was not union people, so I'd guess the armorer wasn't union either. As I understand, the training and testing to be a union armorer is intense. He told me that, when there are prop guns on set, it's super regulated, which I'm guessing it wasn't this time. A major mistake is knowing the AD handed him the gun, when it should be the armorer or the prop master handing over the gun.
Someone is going to get in a lot of trouble.
Head armorer is only 24 years old, seems like she got the job because her father was a well-known, experienced armorer. Hollywood nepotism for the loss.
I'm also wondering why there were any bullets on the set, period. Or honestly, why there even need to be real guns. There are replicas that would look real enough.