Actor Alec Baldwin shoots 2 people, killing one of them.

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Oh man, someone's going to have a hell of a lawsuit, after The Crow the industry put in all sorts of safeguards to insure that shouldn't be able to happen, most prop guns are no longer even capable of firing a bullet after modification. I wonder if a weld or solder plug broke loose and that's what was ejected from the barrel, blank loads are made to be louder and flashier than the real thing for cinematic purposes and can kill or injure even without a projectile being present.

Also, in before the Trump statement.

I know all sorts of jokes, rumors, and conspiracy theories are going to come of this, so let me say it right now: this is a terrible tragedy and I feel for everyone involved.

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It'll be interesting to see who (besides Mr Baldwin) is charged, and what they are charged with in this case - You'd have several people (including an armorer, and director) who would have to sign off that the firearm was not loaded\was deactivated\was loaded with blanks before it would be allowed on set, presumably...And if it hadn't gone through that process, then the owner\supplier of the gun would also potentially have legal liability.

Either way, Mr Baldwin is likely looking at the following as the highest "severity" charge (among a number of others), although a murder charge (second degree) is also theoretically possible:

Aside from all the various other safety practices used on film sets with prop firearms, protocol is to never actually aim at other actors when firing blanks, they use camera angles to make it look like they are, but they're supposed to aim slightly off in order to avoid even the remote possibility of a tragedy like this. Alec Baldwin has been in a number of action movies over the years, so he ought to know this, I wonder if this is some sort of catastrophic failure, like a gun actually blowing up.

Baldwin's film centres around a 13-year-old boy who goes on the run with his estranged grandfather after he’s sentenced to hang for the accidental killing of a local rancher in the 1880s, according to the movie’s logline.

Oh the irony

Sounds like the death of Brandon Lee on the set of the Crow.

As I understand it - in that movie - loading the gun was shown onscreen as part of the plotline - so they first had to load the pistol with fake bullets that looked real - cartridges with pointed projectiles, but with no powder- then offscreen had to remove THOSE fake bullets, and replace them with blanks- which are bullets WITH powder but without projectiles- but one of the original fake bullets had accidently (and unbeknownst to everyone) come apart in the gun and the projectile part stayed jammed into the gun- so when the cameras rolled again, and when the other actor fired blanks at Lee- that fake blank bullet had momentarily become (in effect) a real whole bullet because the powder charge of the blank was pushing a real projectile out of the barrel at Lee. Hence the tragedy.

Now to sit back and wait for Fox to equate the deaths with Baldwin's left wing politics.