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Maybe. I don't think it's particularly reasonable to hold her to "the armorer has ultimate responsibility for all firearms on set" when the producers formally rostered her as only part time armorer, undermined her authority at every turn, and ultimately outright barred her from performing key...

Reading through the entire Statement of Cause, I don’t see any viable defense for Baldwin, but I do think the facts alleged here do not at all refute my argument that Reed has a very strong factual defense on the basis that the producers explicitly and directly prevented her from being able to...

It's comparable to federal sentencing guidelines, which set a range of 15-21 months for reckless involuntary manslaughter. It's still a felony conviction, which is a *huge deal* -- loss of right to vote, loss of right to possess firearms, etc.

Baldwin got lethally complacent from years of working primarily “big” movies where there’s an entire professional armory department which firearms safety is delegated to. But he has no excuse here because as a co-producer of the film, he was fully involved in the decisions made to limit the...

If the facts I’ve seen asserted are accurate (producers including Baldwin restricted armorer hours, abrogated armorer authority, barred her from the set as non-vital, and even specifically banned her from doing safety briefings), the armorer should not be held at fault. However, it’s entirely...

For potential civil liability, an out of court settlement is generally the best option. You’re not going to get that many cases where the family of the bereaved wants to pursue a court case at all costs, and the law in many states actively discourages doing so. It's still being investigated...

I don't think Baldwin deserves to be charged more than the other producers, because the negligence in the safety setup applies equally to all of the people with final decision making authority. On the other hand, given his physical presence on set, he can't pretend he wasn't aware that there...

I think Baldwin is absolutely liable as a producer of the film even if the facts bear out him not being responsible as the shooter due to movie-specific safety regulations. ----- It is absolutely negligent for a movie as gun-heavy as a Western to hire only a single armorer in the first place...

Honestly, the part that *really* steams me is that the producers outright admitted that yes, they had three prior misfires on set and took no action to address those incidents, but argued that it's totally unfair for OSHA to penalize them for this because the misfires did not involve live...

Not surprisingly, the producers are appealing the fine, claiming that the law allows them to delegate all responsibility for firearm safety to "experts in that field" and that they're therefore immune from liability over such safety, and moreover that they did not "willfully" violate safety...

According to Halls' own affidavit, the armorer opened the gun for him to inspect just before the fatal shooting, and this was normal procedure on the set. Such two-person inspection is in keeping with industry norms for safe operation, and indicates that Halls was indeed working as an assistant...

Yes, I saw those reports too, but the most reliable statements are citing interviews and affidavits that were made to the police. It's not absolutely airtight since the actual interviews and affidavits aren't being made available to the public, but more so than the earlier claims all over the...

No, she wasn't. The walkoff was the camera crew.

Her dad is long retired and she did not get the job through him, so no, not nepotism. This was a matter of the producers being greedy, cheap, and stubborn; multiple experienced armorers that they tried to hire turned them down because they wanted too much work for too small a staff. Instead...

To be fair, any sensible person in his position wouldn't talk to the media.

Based on what's come out so far, it sounds like the armorer checked and set up the prop guns for the scene, then locked them in the armory safe before they broke for lunch. One of the three people with safe access -- most likely Halls -- then took one of the firearms from the safe to play with...

The three people with gun safe access were the armorer, the props master, and the assistant director who appears to have been doubling as an assistant armorer. Props master makes sense since armory is a subdivision of props, while the latter dovetails with news interviews with an armorer who...

I believe what was previously stated was that only three people had the combination to the gun safe in the prop truck, not that only three people had ever touched the gun.

Movie dummies are usually made from real rounds. The armorer will take the bullet out of a live round, dump the propellant, safely expend the primer in a test shot, then put the bullet back to produce a dummy round. The fact that such dummies are extremely difficult to distinguish from actual...

The Santa Fe Sheriff's Department released information from an interview with the armorer, who states that she checked the prop gun in question and secured it in the prop truck safe while the crew took a lunch break, although ammunition for it was left on the unsecured prop cart. As per industry...