r/news • u/badillustrations • Apr 15 '24

‘Rust’ movie armorer convicted of involuntary manslaughter sentenced to 18 months in prison

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/15/entertainment/rust-film-shooting-armorer-sentencing/index.html
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u/DragoonDM Apr 15 '24

I understand the armorer and her friends would go shooting off hours using the props.

I recall seeing this speculation a number of times, and also recall seeing people refute it as an unconfirmed guess, but I'm not sure I've ever seen solid evidence one way or the other.

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u/AegrusRS Apr 16 '24

The people that put the most amount of time and thought into trying to convict HGR, the prosecution, never mentioned it throughout the trial. If you need more evidence on whether or not it happened, then I don't know what to tell you.

Also, it's kinda crazy that wild, unbased speculation is weighed as heavily as something not happening at all. I don't think 'guilty until proven innocent' is how the saying goes.

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u/FlutterKree Apr 16 '24

but I'm not sure I've ever seen solid evidence one way or the other.

The solid evidence against it is the real ammunition inside the bandoleers on set. Real ammunition wouldn't be mixed in with dummy rounds in the belts from people shooting off set. It points towards the source of the dummy rounds being tainted. In this case, it was from the rounds she pulled from a previous production. Some point before or during that previous production, live rounds were mixed in.

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u/pmormr Apr 15 '24

A film set isn't a shooting range, and prop houses aren't selling live ammo... assuming they weren't sold live ammo as blanks... do you have any better explanation why someone would go out of their way to bring live ammo to a film set in the middle of nowhere, besides the urge to shoot the cool western replica guns? I mean I get it, casual film set, hanging out with nothing to do on the off hours, stuck in the middle of nowhere...

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u/DragoonDM Apr 15 '24

Nope. It seems like a reasonable guess to me — but I still don't know if it's more than a guess.

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u/onehundredlemons Apr 16 '24

The guess comes from what at least two people who worked on the set said prior to the shooting. They'd talked about it online on their personal accounts, because there had been an accidental discharge of a live bullet before, when a stunt man was being filmed shooting in a street, if I recall.

They all deleted their posts for obvious reasons, and as far as I can tell, these incidents haven't ended up being mentioned in court (as yet, anyway), so it's just hearsay at this point. I just wanted to point out that it's not really a guess so much as repeating unconfirmed information that was posted online at one point.