Alec Baldwin Shooting

[HappySkeptic]

Nope, it's the job of the props people to make sure props are safe. Not the actors,

Guns are not complicated and safety is not optional. If you use a gun, you own the consequences. No excuses.

I'm not buying this at all.

If you own a gun, every single thing about it is 100% your responsibility, from deciding to own it, to how its stored, what ordinance is around it and in it, and where you point it.

An actor is literally paid to point a gun at things, including the camera.  It isn't their gun, they aren't the ones legally responsible for checking it, and may not have the expertise to identify the prop bullets vs real ones (this gun was loaded with 4 prop bullets, and one real one).

If every actor has to unload the gun, check the bullets, and then reload, then they would need to be trained and registered as the firearms experts legally responsible for every gun in their hands.

That would result in more shootings, not less, so the responsibility is on the armorer and the person under the armorer's supervision that hands the weapon to the actor.  If the actor ever puts down the weapon, it needs to be checked again before going back into an actor's hands.