Lots of new info from the Cops in this article.
TOM LEONARD examines new footage of the shooting on Alec Baldwin movie set | Daily Mail Online
Including this:
Even if Baldwin was handed a loaded gun, industry insiders say that doesn't absolve him of responsibility. Hollywood actors' union guidelines specify no one should pick up a gun without checking it themselves and should never aim it directly at anyone.
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The union guidelines that Baldwin ignored mirror basic gun safety rules. Which as a gun owner himself, Baldwin knew.
Does anyone think that if the scene called for him to cock the gun and put it to his own head that he wouldn't have checked himself to make sure it wasn't loaded? Of course he would have, with his own life on the line. But he didn't when it was just someone else's life.