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Not really something that needs a ton of explanation.

All the articles I've read say one round, hitting one and passing through to hit a second person.

I agree Baldwin might not be the most responsible, but IMO there's still responsibility for trusting someone to be competent when they've shown themselves to not be. For instance, I don't know the film industries safety standards, but if no crew members except for the armorer is supposed to be...

Part of the reason I kind of am is that he was a producer. So, he's at least partially responsible for how the movie is made, which involves hiring people to make sure the guns are used safely. And it sounds like they weren't being used safely, because this wasn't a one off - there had been...

From what I've read it sounds like it was one shot that hit the cinematographer, passed through her, and hit a second person behind her. Seems like there were incredibly lax safety standards, they'd had three negligent discharges before the fatal one. During which the "armorer" puts three guns...

Eh, no. You're responsible every time you pull the trigger. If someone - even like an instructor on a course or something - told me a gun was empty and handed it to me, I'd still check myself before treating it as anything other than loaded. That's the #1 rule of gun safety - the gun is always...

Squib?

I think best practices for this then would be 1) The actor making sure that they personally did know the difference between blanks and real cartridges and 2) The actor personally verifying that the gun was actually loaded with blanks.

Alec Baldwin just killed someone apparently.