[JMintzer]

Originally Posted by Kelevision

As a director myself, I’ve directed many episodes of television and was a script supervisor for 30 years before that. I’m not retired and still direct. I just directed the Flash and have directed show such as Blue Bloods, Vampire Diaries and worked on Dexter, Entourage, The OC, and many other shows. There’s a very strict protocol when it comes to guns on set. The Armorer or prop master is in charge of all guns. The guns should never be in public and the only person who can get them is Armorer or prop person. Then the 1st Assistant Director must look into every chamber as the armorer turns it to show there’s nothing inside. At that point, the 1st AD calls out ‘cold gun’ at which point, he hands it over to the actor. There was a movie called The Crow, where an actor shot Brandon Lee (Bruce Lees son) with a blank, and killed him. That’s when the safety protocol went in place. That armorer was fired off a movie with Nick Cage months earlier for guns going off accidentally on set. I don’t like or dislike Alec Baldwin but there’s just now way he’s to blame when there are clear union jobs and armorer and 1st AD are the ones in charge of gun safety. As for the producer title. It’s a title. Almost every actor gets a producing title these days. As do all the writers. The only real producers are the Line Producer and the show runner.

Agree on almost all counts...

They weren't filming and Baldwin was screwing around with the gun...