I've been a gun owner for 25 years and have also work on many film sets and I have to tell you working on a film set is more dangerous than any firearm. It's like being aboard a runaway train. It's all time and money, which means things are either intentionally or unintentionally over looked. Many gun owner have posted that Baldwin should have check the weapon, that is true, but I have seen prop masters actually show the actor the the firearm is unload before they hand it to them. This should have been the responsibility of the prop master to take this step. As I said working on a film set can sometimes be a mad house, it's like being in the middle of a 3 ring circus and not knowing what's going to happen next and even someone who is an experience gun owner might get distracted.
Let's be honest if this was a low budget movie with some no name actor it probably wouldn't have been on the news.
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