Comments by "Laird Cummings" (@lairdcummings9092) on "ANTI-GUN ALEC BALDWIN SHOOTS CO-WORKER" video.

My 24 year old daughter could have run that set's weapons just fine. She could have done so at age 12. The age of the Armorer isn't the issue; it's the skills which were lacking. What I have a hard time wrapping my head around is that Reed is the daughter of a legendary Hollywood Armorer; how the hell was she this unprepared..?! She literally grew up in the care of a man who teaches armorers how to do their job!
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Rule #1: EVERY weapon is loaded until YOU prove otherwise. Violated. Rule #2: NEVER point a weapon at anything you're not willing to destroy. Violated. That said, I want to know: What a fucking live round was doing on set?; why was an AD and NOT the Armorer handling weapons?; WHY they were not using Simunitions-type weapons?; WHO THE FUCK was the safety manager, and why did they let that shit show continue? Also: #akgnotificationsquad
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@thechonkersking2647 through-and-through wound, gravely injuring the man behind her. That was not a blank.
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@SpecialEDy agreed. He violated Rules One and Two (and arguably Rule Four). That said, there were a lot of links in the chain of events, any one of which, had they been properly observed, would have prevented the tragedy.
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@TheArklyte if he hadn't been in other movies handling guns, I'd agree. But he has, so I don't.
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Amen.
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@thechonkersking2647 the point here is that if it is able penetrate more than an entire human torso, it is no longer a blank - it is a lethal cartridge. Doesn't matter if it was intended to be a blank, it is not one.
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@Jesusprayerwarriorbw one of three prepared by the Armorer, sitting on a cart outside the set. Not his personal weapon at all (being an anti-gun zealot, I doubt Baldwin owns any firearms).
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@TheArklyte sure, in a magazine-fed weapon, things get more complicated. Revolvers? Very nearly stone-axe simple. I think Brandon expected that we understood this was a Western; certainly the media has been very clear on that. That said, yeah, he could have mentioned the weapon type, sure.
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@SepticFuddy possibly. On the other hand, the blog post about her previous movie specifically states that she got her father to "train her up." So, I think my point stands.
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@HipsterKhan daughter, not grand daughter.
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@conorstewart2214 that is a distinct possibility. I've had a squib malfunction. I lost the weapon, but because I followed the basic rules, that was all I lost that day.
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Through-and-through wound, striking and grievously wounding the man behind her? What the fuck kind of hot load was in that "cold" gun..?!
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Movie company could have easily paid for a "Simunitions" weapon, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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@Tricky_Vic wasn't the Prop Master. It was an Assistant Director. Why was an AD handling weapons and not the Armorer?
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@TheArklyte it was a revolver, so cycling doesn't apply. Otherwise, agreed.
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@mlr1691 none of which I argued against.
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@TheArklyte fair enough!
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@sebnetic no Darwin - neither of his victims did this to themselves.
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@mlr1691 ah. Very good. Carry on smartly!
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@mandothepando9637 if true, then that is an incredible failure of duty. No way in hell production weapons should be so used, and, in the unthinkable case where such happened, they should have been immediately cleared by the Armorer. That is exactly the Armorer's job!
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@Sartek except that is NOT what happened; the AD grabbed the weapon off the cart, not from the Armorer. I'll note that this particular AD has a history of unsafe actions and behaviors, as documented by former colleagues.
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@thawhiterabbit01 I seriously doubt a hoplophobe like Baldwin owns any weapons. In any case, it was one of three on the cart, so I doubt it was a personal weapon in any case.
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@Sartek ah. Thank you.
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@conorstewart2214 yeah, which is why I agreed that it was a distinct possibility.
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