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A live round as in one? My earlier Oscar Wilde quote still stands as I really want to know how you shoot two people by accident.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2409991208296/two-chicago-cops-suffer-minor-injuries-after-another-cop-accidentally-fired-his-gun-during-a-struggle-with-homicide-suspects-with-the-bullet-going-through-one-officer-s-arm-and-into-another-s-shoulder-police-say
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
But the reporting has been atrocious. 'Alec Baldwin shoots woman'. Like she is anonymous and not part of the story. Frankly Baldwin's involvement was incidental. Whichever actor in that part was going to pull that trigger. The second half of the day's reporting has tried to compensate after a bit of a backlash but it absolutely winds me up.
Halyna Hutchins was her name and she was a talent, and a mother and a victim.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Obviously it's a bit of a touchy subject for a lot of people who stand behind a camera.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Really sad news.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-10-22/alec-baldwin-rust-camera-crew-walked-off-set
I suspect there is little point following any of the reporting on this for about the next month….
First, a close-up of the front of a revolver was required, so 'dummy' bullets were made by removing the propellant charge from the cartridges, but they left in the percussion caps. One of these was fired, and either the energy from the percussion cap alone, or a tiny amount of residual propellant left in the cartridge, was enough to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel, where it stuck. This was not noticed.
Then, normal blank cartridges were used in the same gun, which do contain a fair amount of propellant as well as soft wadding. When one of these was fired, it produced enough energy to drive the bullet fully through the barrel almost as if it was a normal live round. The mistake which caused the accident was not checking the gun after what must have been obviously a dummy round with the bullet missing was taken out.
I would guess this one must be very similar, or a simple mistake in loading a live round instead of a dummy, since if it was a blank, the wadding would not be able to penetrate right through one person (in the chest area apparently) and seriously injure another, even though they can be quite dangerous at short range.
Whichever happened, it looks like a failure of the armoury crew to check that the gun was loaded with the right type of cartridge and/or clear of any other left-overs from other uses. Not Baldwin's fault at all, although I suspect he will live with this for the rest of his life.
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"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein