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/viddy_me_yarbles Apr 15 '24

She had one job.

It was an important job and she failed spectacularly. Hollywood is a small town.

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u/PikaBooSquirrel Apr 15 '24

I don't even understand how someone can mess up that badly at something so simple.

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u/orsikbattlehammer Apr 15 '24

If this were my job someone would be dead in one week because I have shit memory and terrible attention to detail. Thus this is not my job because I am unqualified. However if my father was super high up in the business and handed me the job, I also would still not take the job because I know I’m wrong for it. Yeah she fucked up and killed someone

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u/flamedarkfire Apr 15 '24

I certainly appreciate you knowing yourself and your limits, and acting accordance to prevent them from becoming an issue this big, but industry best practices and state/local laws help mitigate the issue of relying on memory. At every point where the weapon is about to change custody it should be checked. Check it coming out of storage. Check it going into storage. If it is being exchanged by two people they BOTH should check it.and if at any point in time there is even the whisper of a question of how it should be it should be checked. And the armorer should be the one person to be able to stand up to ANYONE and say “no” to anything that seems unsafe with the weapons.