{"id":945966,"date":"2021-10-31T15:28:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T19:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=945966"},"modified":"2021-10-31T15:28:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T19:28:39","slug":"alec-baldwin-extremely-interested-in-limiting-use-of-firearms-on-film-sets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alec-baldwin-extremely-interested-in-limiting-use-of-firearms-on-film-sets\/","title":{"rendered":"Alec Baldwin &#039;Extremely Interested&#039; in Limiting Use of Firearms on Film Sets"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falec-baldwin-extremely-interested-in-limiting-use-of-firearms-on-film-sets%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=945966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Actor Alec Baldwin told reporters Saturday he is \u201cextremely interested\u201d in limiting the use of firearms on movie sets in the wake of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/22\/sheriff-investigating-after-alec-baldwin-discharged-prop-gun-that-killed-cinematographer-wounded-director-on-film-set\/\">fatal shooting<\/a> while producing his latest film <em>Rust<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico\u2019s Santa Fe County Sheriff\u2019s Office opened an investigation when a 42-year-old cinematographer was killed on October 21, 2021, after Baldwin discharged a prop gun.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/24\/report-halyna-hutchins-was-shot-in-chest-when-alec-baldwin-fired-prop-gun\/\">was shot in the chest,<\/a>&nbsp;and 48-year-old director Joe Souza was also shot and wounded.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18444610\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AP_21297095452559.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18444610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/AP_21297095452559.jpg\" alt=\"A musician plays a violin behind a photograph of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a vigil in her honor in Albuquerque, N.M., Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. Hutchins was fatally shot on Thursday, Oct. 21, after an assistant director unwittingly handed actor Alec Baldwin a loaded weapon and told him it was safe to use on the set of a Western filmed in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo\/Andres Leighton)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A musician plays a violin behind a photograph of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a vigil in her honor in Albuquerque, N.M., Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. (AP Photo\/Andres Leighton)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Baldwin spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2021\/10\/30\/alec-baldwin-speaks-first-time-on-camera-halyna-hutchins\/\">reporters<\/a> Saturday, responding&nbsp;to one question by saying he is \u201cextremely interested\u201d in limiting the use of firearms on movie sets.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He said, \u201cI do know that an ongoing effort to limit the use of firearms on film sets is something I\u2019m extremely interested in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin then asked reporters to remember how many guns have been fired on film sets during the past 75 years and stressed that those guns were fired \u201cmostly without incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he added, \u201cWe have to realize that when it does go wrong, and it\u2019s this horrible catastrophic thing, some new measures have to take place.\u201d He went on to suggest rubber guns or plastic guns as alternatives to functional guns that normally fire blanks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18425266\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/alecbaldwinrust4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18425266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/alecbaldwinrust4.jpg\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Alec Baldwin speaks on the phone in the parking lot outside the Santa Fe County Sheriff\u2019s Office in Santa Fe, N.M., after he was questioned about a shooting on the set of the film \u201cRust.\u201d (Jim Weber\/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hollywood weapons expert Bryan Carpenter&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/10\/23\/hollywood-weapons-expert-alec-baldwin-ignored-no-1-rule-of-gun-safety\/\">responded<\/a> of the Hutchins\u2019 death and Souza\u2019s by suggesting Baldwin ignored the number rule of gun safety.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Post<\/em>&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/10\/23\/baldwin-ignored-no-1-rule-of-gun-safety-hollywood-weapons-expert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">quoted<\/a>&nbsp;Carpenter stressing that the No. 1 rule as, \u201cLoaded or unloaded, a weapon never gets pointed at another human being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stressed that rules of gun safety apply even on a movie set, where \u201cyou never let the muzzle of a weapon cover something you don\u2019t intend to destroy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News<\/em><em>&nbsp;and the writer\/curator of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Down Range with AWR Hawkins<\/a>,&nbsp;<\/em><em>a weekly newsletter focused o<\/em><em>n al<\/em><em>l things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. Follow him on Instagram:&nbsp;<\/em><em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/awr_hawkins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@awr_hawkins<\/a>. Reach him at&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"mailto:awrhawkins@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">awrhawkins@breitbart.com<\/a>. You can sign up to get Down Range at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/downrange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">breitbart.com\/downrange<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actor Alec Baldwin told reporters Saturday he is \u201cextremely interested\u201d in limiting the use of firearms on movie sets in the wake of his fatal shooting while producing his latest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-945966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}