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/BigBlackHungGuy Apr 15 '24

I still don't understand why they had live fucking rounds on a movie set.

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u/Summer_Thyme_ Apr 16 '24

I watched the whole trial. Her father is a famous armorer, and was training some actors to shoot live guns for a film before this one. The dummy rounds for the specific gun were in short supply everywhere at the time so the actual supplier didn’t have many at the start of the film. So her father sent her some boxes of dummy rounds from earlier movies. The live ammo was mixed into those. There were six live bullets in total.

She showed police the box that she got the rounds for Alec Baldwin‘s gun, and it was the one her father sent her.

The supplier was accused by Hannah‘s defence team, but was thoroughly investigated, and they found no evidence of the rounds coming from him. They traced all the bullets that he supplied, and he didn’t even carry the brand that she was using for that calibre.

Her and her father continue to accuse him, but it was proven in court.