You Don’t Say: Santa Fe County Sheriff Says ‘There Was Some Complacency’ About Gun Safety On the ‘Rust’ Movie Set

By Morgan Lee, Susan Montoya and Gene Johnson, AP

Light from a high afternoon sun slanted through the tall windows of the weathered wooden church, catching on the plank floorboards and illuminating the stained glass. Outside, the arid ground of the northern New Mexico foothills stretched for miles — a picturesque setting for an Old West gun battle.

The actor Alec Baldwin, haggard in a white beard and period garb as he played a wounded character named Harlan Rust, sat in a pew, working out how he would draw a long-barreled Colt .45 revolver across his body and aim it toward the movie camera.

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