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Jacobs: Movie Industry Still Wrestling With How to Maintain Safety on Sets With Guns After the ‘Rust’ Shooting

Scott Reeder, the head of props on “Walker,” the TV revival about a gun-toting Texas Ranger, was planning for a scene in which a woman points a revolver at a captive when a new set…

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New Mexico Prosecutors Say They’ll Charge Alec Baldwin With Manslaughter Again

New Mexico prosecutors say they will file new charges against Alec Baldwin if further testing shows that his gun was working at the time of the “Rust” shooting. The special prosecutors in the case, Kari Morrissey and…


Alec Baldwin Sues His Own Crew Members, Blames Them for Fatal Shot That Killed Cinematographer

  “[Hannah] Gutierrez-Reed failed to check the bullets or the gun carefully, [Dave] Halls failed to check the gun carefully and yet announced the gun was safe before handing it to Baldwin, and [Sarah] Zachry…


FBI: Alec Baldwin Pulled The Trigger on the Movie Set Revolver, Killing Halyna Hutchins

In yet another investigatory coup by the FBI, the bureau’s crack forensic boffins have officially determined what literally everyone else who knows even the first thing about firearms knew almost immediately after the movie set…


Police Release Video From Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Movie Set Shooting and Investigation

By Morgan Lee, AP Law enforcement officials released a trove of video evidence Monday in the ongoing investigation of a fatal October shooting of a cinematographer by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the set…


New Mexico Fines ‘Rust’ Producers for Willful Breaches of Industry Gun Safety Practices

By Morgan Lee, AP New Mexico workplace safety regulators on Wednesday issued the maximum possible fine of nearly $137,000 against a film production company for firearms safety failures on the set of “Rust” where a…


Baldwin ‘Rust’ Movie Set Shooting Investigators Try to Track Source of Live Ammunition

By Morgan Lee, AP Authorities pursued new leads Tuesday on possible sources of live ammunition involved in actor Alec Baldwin’s fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the New Mexico set of a western movie, as they searched…


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…


Movie Arms Expert: Blame Baldwin and the ‘Rust’ Armorer for Cinematographer’s Death

By Lee Williams Richard Collins owns more than 1,000 machine guns and 4,000 other firearms. He stores his massive collection in two safes. Each is 1,000 square feet – the doors weigh 5,000 pounds. Collins…


Baldwin Film Crew Spent Spare Time Target Shooting With ‘Prop Gun’ Before Incident

While Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Deputies have remained tight-lipped about their investigation of Alec Baldwin’s killing his director of photography and wounding his director on the set of the movie ‘Rust’ being filmed in New…