When the armorer hands an actor a gun, the actor is not allowed to do anything but act. If the actor opens the weapon to check it for live ammunition, the gun is considered not-safe, and it must be handed back to the armorer for that person’s approval.
More fun: the gun in question was a single-action revolver. To check such a gun for live vs filming ammo you have to remove the rounds one-by-one. If you have an automatic pistol doing that’s no problem; hit the magazine catch to drop the mag, rack the slide and inspect the barrel to ensure there’s not one in the chamber, and inspect the ammo in the magazine. But on SA revolvers, things are a bit different. The cylinder - the part on the gun you load - doesn’t swing out like it does on a double-action. Instead, there’s a little door behind the cylinder. You have to rotate the cylinder until the cartridge will come out and push on an extractor rod to push it out…for every cartridge in the pistol. Baldwin might not even know how to do it, and he might not be able to tell the difference between a live round and a filming round. They hired this guy because he speaks well and looks good, not because he knows anything about firearms.
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