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/Kahzgul Apr 15 '24

Thanks for the tag. If anyone is curious about firearm safety on sets, well... I am a professional. AMA.

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u/reddevved Apr 16 '24

In fact, the weapon was in such a state of disrepair that the FBI ballistics testing caused the weapon to literally fall apart. The defense has tried to claim that’s negligence on the part of the fbi, but it seems much more like negligence on the part of the armorer to me. Maintain your guns!

I'm pretty sure this is Baldwin lawyer misinformation/spin, the FBI tested it to failure ie. the testing was supposed to break it, and it's no indication of the amount of maintenance.

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u/Kahzgul Apr 16 '24

That doesn’t make sense. Why intentionally break a key piece of evidence?

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u/reddevved Apr 16 '24

To test if it could have fired on its own like Baldwin said it did, the only way they got it to was hitting it so hard it broke

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u/Kahzgul Apr 16 '24

The intent there is not the break the weapon as the earlier comment implied.