Rust armorer accuses ammunition supplier of providing ‘mixture of fake and real ammo’

The armorer on the Alec Baldwin movie Rust is blaming the ammunition supplier as the investigation into the fatal shooting continues.

Attorney for Hannah Gutierrez Reed, a senior Rust, filed a lawsuit against arms supplier Seth Kenney and PDQ Arm and Prop, the company he founded, for allegedly creating “a dangerous condition on set” by supplying “ammunition cartridges” intended to contain dummy bullets, but containing a mixture of dummy and real bullets,” CBS News and CNN’s report.

Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot on set in October after opening fire during a rehearsal for a shoot, and since then, investigators have been examining how live ammunition plays out on the set. movie studio. Attorney for Gutierrez Reed stated before she “didn’t know where the live loops came from” and they suggested someone may have sabotaged the set. Santa Fe County District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies refute that view.

Kenney told Good Morning America Last month, he was confident that PDQ Arm and Prop did not provide live rounds for Rust set, said, “It’s unlikely that they came from the PDQ or from me personally. When we send the dummy bullets out, they’re checked for every rattle before being released.” However, Gutierrez Reed’s lawsuit alleges that “Hannah and the whole Rust the film crew relied on defendant’s testimony that they supplied only counterfeit ammunition”, “and the defendants” knew or ought to have reasonably believed that the ammunition they supplied Rust production will be used to shoot scenes involving the shootings,” New York Times report.

Lawsuit also accused Gutierrez Reed asked assistant director Dave Halls to let her know when Baldwin was back on set so she could re-examine the weapon, but Halls failed to do so. and her “will never let Baldwin point a weapon at Halyna, as part of standard safe gun procedures.”