Alec Baldwin calls for police officers on film sets after fatal 'Rust' shooting [View all]
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Alec Baldwin calls for police officers on film sets after fatal ‘Rust’ shooting
By Adela Suliman
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Actor Alec Baldwin is calling for police officers to be present on film sets as a means to improve weapons safety, weeks after a fatal shooting of his colleague.
Baldwin discharged a weapon that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and injured movie director Joel Souza, 48, in October while working on the set of the western film “Rust.”
“Every film/TV set that uses guns, fake or otherwise, should have a police officer on set, hired by the production, to specifically monitor weapons safety,” he wrote on Instagram on Monday.
Weapons safety on set is normally the domain of an armorer or a firearms specialist. The armorer ensures they look realistic and are appropriate for the setting of the film and most importantly, the armorer is tasked with making sure the weapons are clean, correctly loaded, properly kept up and safely handled. However, there is usually little formal training required to become one.
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By Adela Suliman
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Un-defund the police.
Doesn't the NRA certify people to train other people in firearms safety?
Maybe he could hire one of them.
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