don t point it there, or she cannot stand there at that moment. let me play one of the moments when stephanopoulos asked what we ve heard from a lot of people, which is that since this happened, which is never pointing a gun at someone on set. let me play this. you re never supposed to point a gun at anyone on a set, some say, no matter what. unless the person is the cinematographer who s directing me where to point the gun for her camera angle. that s exactly what happened. dutch, with your experience, what do you think of what he said? well, the rule is true. you re never supposed to point at a person unless it s pointed at the cinematographer doesn t make a lot of sense. of course, had the armorer been in the room to on receiver that process and guide that blocking of the camera, they would have immediately said, no, you can t point the gun where that person
there are several questions. maybe the biggest question is why and how there was a live round, one or more, on the set. but there s the entire chain of custody of the gun and how did it get loaded and how did it get to the first a.d. and went to the actor without the normal processes? it s really jarring to think that somehow a real round got onto a film set. it s number one on the firearms safety bulletin for motion pictures and television, is no live ammunition anywhere on a studio lot. under the extremely rare situation where someone would need to shoot live rounds for a scene, they would go to a shooting range and be under very carefully controlled circumstances. so is it something that migrated into a box of dummy rounds? somebody made them home made or made them of poor quality? were rounds mixed up on a range on a previous day and brought on to set?
the trigger wasn t pulled. i never pulled the trigger. you never pulled the trigger. no, no, no. i would never point a gun at someone and pug a trigger. that avs thtraining i had. you re holding onto the hammer. how does that work? do you see that? do you see that? i m not pulling the hammer. bang, the gun goes off. everyone is horrified. they re shocked. it s loud. they don t have their earplugs in. the gun was supposed to be empty. i was told i was handed an empty gun. nothing with a charge at all, a flash round, nothing. she goes down. i thought to myself, did she faint? the notion that there was a live round in that gun did not dawn on me till probably 45 minutes to an hour later. at the end of she was laying
elie honig. what do you think of how alec baldwin describes what he was doing with the gun, what he says in that moment when it fired? he says he didn t pull the trigger, pulling the hammer back only as far as he could without cocking the gun. what does that mean to you? well, the way those guns are set up, there should be half-cock position, which is where you ll spin the cylinder to load it or unload it. if he pulled it past that point almost to the point of engaging the hammer all the way back, it should have dropped into the halfway position. if it didn t do that and went past that, was there a malfunction in the gun? did he not pull the hammer past the half cock where it would have stopped? there s safety mechanism in there. either way, when he did release the hammer, as he says, it was pointed at halyna. so there is still even with