You get what you pay for. Baldwin should have known that. You hire a 20 something nepo baby to handle weaponry and look what happened. There's more than one reason movie sets are unionized.
She learned under her father Thell Reed who was a armorer legend in Hollywood. She was on sets as young as 10 years old. She was just inept and was a party hardy. She wasn't focused.
@kunobuje542 her father was very qualified though. He was on Tombstone, Django, Once Upon a Time in Holllywood, 3:10 to Yuma. Just to name a few. The problem is that she is not professional not nearly the "caliber" of this witness.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is the difference between a knowledgeable and trained individual and the person that got the job because their daddy did the same job.
@@ypure3859 I wish it were at least poorly trained, in her previous police interview she said she didn't know if she was qualified as an armorer even. She's never been to a certified course, just what people or her dad has shown her. The worst case of trust me bro in the world.
I've watched this man's testimony. He's indeed an 'expert'. He's well spoken, clear in his explanations and clearly has experience. He doesn't throw Gutierrez under the bus per se, but shows the flaws of the entire situation. Low/no budget, multitude of firearms, minimum experience crews, and rushed shooting schedule. This was a disaster in the making. Thank you Mr. Carpenter!
Here’s the problem with your assessment… it’s clear him and the rest of the production were given warning about Hannah and yet they did nothing. Imagine you’re the owner of a company and you are given warning, wonder drivers driving drunk yes the individual driver will be charged, but the owner of the company will have liability after also
@@TonyFromSyracuse101 ????? I never said the production company held no responsibility??? The Problem with my assessment ?? Are you right in the head ??? Is your problem with your reading or your intellect ? I said what a great witness this was
@TonyFromSyracuse101 She wasn't the "driver"- Baldwin was. Her job was just to make sure that the "car" didn't get lost, and that it operated correctly.
Man this was devastating for the defense...How is the defense going to counter this... This expert pointed out so many mistakes with the guns in this scene.
@@Juliette_4 He said one of the rules followed by all armorers is, assume every gun is loaded. That's not exaggerating. He's a professional explaining the safety rules of his profession. Every violation is damning. It shows that she either didn't know what her role was, of just didn't do it.
Another excellent witness. He makes it very clear that it doesn’t matter what she was being told by producers, when she took that role it became her personal ethical responsibility to ensure safety even when facing backlash and punishment
I am not defending Hannah for what happened on that set, she was clearly in over her head and even brought live rounds on the set. But imagine at 24 or whatever age she was at the time trying to override or argue with Alec Baldwin. When she told him she wanted to go over gun safety and cross draw safety and he refused to do so, I'm sure she felt as though she would lose her job and potential career in the industry if she disobeyed him or insisted on his compliance. It's not easy to override people twice your age when you're that young. Additionally I believe Alec's purpose in hiring her was to cut costs because she was inexperienced and therefore cheaper labor, and he knew he could run all over her, that she would not have been able to stand up to him. He probably knew if he paid someone with lots of experience he wouldn't have to spend more money and not get to slack off on training. And now of course he's paying dearly for his selfish mistakes!
@@nancypicchi9224 he's no Keanu Reeves. The way Alec was shooting that gun around looked like he was waving around a subway sandwich. The behind the scenes footage was disturbing.
As a licensed pistol owner I have been cringing at the actor with the shotgun. But I am horrified at the armored after viewing her holding the shotgun muzzle up pointing at her own face!!! WTF!!!!!
@@PNW_KT when it comes to gun safety it's dead serious test of common sense. That whole production was a powder keg of disaster. It was failure from top to bottom it was inevitable.
The simple truth is, every single round that comes on set needs to be individually checked. If you are an armorer then that means you. The fact that more than just one live round was on that set means these idiots were playing Russian roulette and it’s 100% her fault.
Baldwin is responsible for live rounds being on set. Theres absolutely zero reason for that. Her and the asst director are both responsible for not properly clearing the weapon that baldwin shot that during that scene
I've worked in production on sets (making commercials, not movies) and I'm a bit shocked at how chaotic the 'behind the scenes' video is. It looks completely out of control.
Wow, this armorer is a real expert .He should’ve been on this movie. I wonder what Hannah is thinking about listening to his testimony because she is intently listening is she thinking boy am I screwed?
They had two other armorers but they wanted help and more money. They would not take the job as Balwin wanted it done too unsafe. So they found someone that needed work badly and this is the result.
You really can't get a better professional who speaks more clear and concise than Bryan. I believe this will have a big impact on the jury. Very well done!
This guy is so incredibly professional. She has got to feel like a complete incompetent hack compared to him. I find it very interesting that her father is not there to support her when he’s the one who trained her
The elephant in the room terminator, John Wick, Mission Impossible Batman Plus 100s more. Complete films, 100,000 gun shots, no killing. RUST 2.5 weeks 1 killing, 3 live rounds shot. Cluster of a set and production. So many mistakes and amateur s. Sad
He's conceited and thinks he's a know it all. There's more to it than what meets the eye. Hannah was telling her attorney some important information during his testimony.
My God. Such a striking difference! Armorer with 20 years of vigorous training and experience, a true expert in his field, and Hannah, the wannabe-armorer, who thought she could just inherit the title.😂
This tragedy was completely avoidable if Hannah had only done her job and checked every round that went into every gun every time she loaded them. However, Hannah didn't take her responsibility seriously enough and I think that she brought the LIVE rounds onto the set. Hannah needs to be held accountable for the death of Halyna Hutchins.
This was her passion. She didn’t really care about her profession and the importance of upholding certain standards. My belief is that she looked at this as another job.
So does Alec Baldwin... the gun was in his hand when it went off, meaning that he is partly (if not entirely) to blame. Proper firearm safety dictates that the one handling the gun is the one who is responsible for its discharge. Baldwin refused to check the gun (while he was not required under industry standards, it is still his responsibility under proper firearm safety). In the Army, we are taught that the chamber is checked by both the person handing it off and the one receiving the weapon to ensure that you are not handing off a loaded weapon, even if there are no live rounds within a 20 mile radius!
I got chills watching these careless fools handling the guns. There is clearly not the slightest concern about safety. Pure ignorance and arrogance. It is no wonder that someone got shot. As for Gutierrez, based on her demeanor, I would not trust her with a BB gun. Purple hair aside, this is not a professional.
Sorry to say, but this defendant looks so smug and "bored"-- her interview revealed little to no emotion about the victim losing her life.-kind of sick.
She looks to me like she is terrified and is having trouble trying to stay calm and present herself as a person who is “responsible”. I’m guessing a Valium would be required to keep it together. She’s not bored. This is the destruction of her life and she has started the process of seeing all the things that she did wrong. I think this will affect her father’s career as well. She never should have been there at all. Did her dad suggest she take the job? How did she get this job? When the armorer testifying shows what the responsibility really is, it is so far above what she was capable of, and especially working with someone like AB, how is she not going to get pushed around? One of the most important things I have learned about life is. KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS! This was way beyond what she was capable of controlling. She should have been an apprentice for a few years and learned from some other, more experienced people. I would never take a job like this, in her situation. She just doesn’t have the training or experience to be successful at this job. Add to that the personality of AB and you’ve got a pressure cooker of problems. …. Kaboom!
@@katherinewild1599 - I agree. In another video where they showed the victim's photos, she was literally choking back the tears and put her head back and her hands on her face. When the deputies were at the scene, she was crying and saying she was so sorry. I think at that time she was sincere. At least the Halls guy admitted that he didn't check to see if there were more bullets in the gun.
The way SO many people could have been negligently shot bc the guns were never secured, ever, is mindblowing. And yes, that is 100% the armorers fault. There are kids, extras, stunts there. Wth would they know? And she was not just bad, she was the worst. She pointed guns at her own face ffs
Bryan is highly knowledgeable and professional and have learned a lot from his testimony. He values safety as number one as it should be. A movie set with him will be in safe hands.
There already was, I think that’s the whole point. It was ALL disregarded and somebody died. The experienced became complacent and the inexperienced was incompetent and totally clueless. She had no business in that position.
I have a lot of respect for the witness. He's authoritative, factual, extremely articulate, and never self-aggrandizing or blaming in order to make himself appear smart or Ms Gutierrez look bad. Particularly with the question of overall gun safety on set and improper safety by an armorer, "...it would be hard to implement." He simply concerns himself with professional standards of safety and proper protocols.
This man is exactly what an ARMOR should be! What a wonderful witness. It breaks my heart for the victims family to have to listen to all of this and realize just how preventable her death was.
Hannah’s cart looked like something like a children’s lemonade stand on a hot Summer day that is unattended for anyone to self serve and leave .50 cents. It’s truly the best way to explain it! All the lawyers SUCK!
They still use live ammo on sets. I think they did the movie before this one. Its not forbidden they just have to state why the effect is needed and why they can't use CGI. Usually due to costs. Nothing is more real than a real guns shooting real bullets. You would have to research the reasons they give but its stated plainly in the guidelines
Live weapons don't require Live ammo depending on what they're doing. And if fired with blanks as opposed to lead bullets the recoil is substantially less. Compared to poorly done cgi with slides that don't move and hammers and bolts that are out of battery with cartridges that are never ejected, it's understandable that they'd want believable realism. However, even with this upstanding gentleman's top notch oversight the fact of the matter is that pointing any live weapon at someone who doesn't need to be threatened with immediately being shot is an egregious violation of safety rules and movies using blanks has via neglegence in various ways claimed actors lives such as that of Brandon Lee. I'd really like to think there's a better way.
He sounds very knowledgeable. Years of experience and training. Difficult job, a lot of responsibilities required . I imagine, age and lack of experience working with others played a part in what happened. Like he said you have to be willing to do the right thing regardless of being fired or let go from a job. I've seen many turn a blind eye because the job was more important to them.
Being an armorer is not rocket science, it just takes diligence which was obviously not Hannah's forte. I was in the Air Force, and we had armorers in their early 20s issuing hundreds of weapons every day with no incidents.
As a former law enforcement officer, even in a training environment for tactical shooting. When we showed up, we surrendered all firearms to be inspected and converted to simunition. We stripped all loaded magazines and they were secured in a locked storage container, we were then physically searched twice by 2 different people to ensure no live rounds are on our person. We were then escorted from the room, the room was locked so that no one may enter the room where live ammo is stored in a separate locked container. We were searched again just to be triple sure that no live rounds made it out. Then we were handed twice inspected magazines loaded with sim rounds. We were then handed and holstered our twice inspected converted simunition firearm. Given instruction, loaded the simunitions and then left the area to conduct the training exercise and that area was isolated and secured to ensure no live rounds entered.
The stark contrast between a professional armorer and what his job entails shows how absolutely unqualified Hannah was for the job. To consider every weapon could be live this is a disaster waiting to happen. It shocks me that no other professionals noticed the severe lack of safety on the set in these scenes.
So far, I have kept an "innocent until proven guilty" mind about the defendant; all the other witnesses and testimonies haven't swayed me either way until this one. This has started to make me believe the defendant is guilty.
IMO they knew but were too cheap to care. Same as if they had hired an unqualified on-set "medic" who had no formal first aid education or certifications except for having seen their mom put ice packs and band-aids on their siblings, because a qualified medic would cost more.
@@GeistView So in your world if an airline pilot crashed a plane that was not maintained -it’s his fault. If I drive a car that explodes -it’s on me. If you were to eat a poison sandwich from a restaurant again that was your choice.
"What is Ms Gutierrez doing in this frame of the evidence footage?" "She's holding the muzzle of the shotgun pointing at her own head, neck, career prospects, and acquittal." (54:50)
This is what happens when you lie on your resume. She was extremely inexperienced. I still can’t believe she never took any training classes at all. It’s her responsibility to speak up or shutdown if safety was a concern.
I am a firearms expert. I am also a very knowledgeable Hand Loader. This guy did an amazing job explaining everything perfectly. This could have all been prevented if the prop master and Armoror were properly trained and had actual training. The prop master and Armoror are at fault
This gentleman is a stellar example of what a professional armorer should be. Impressive. Had the responsible people (“Rush”) hired someone similarly trained and knowledgeable, a precious life wouldn’t have been lost. 😢
She doesn’t have purple hair. The issue is with what she did and did not do, not her looks or personality. And looking at her, I see a twentysomething that people older than her who should have known better let get in over her head. She’s an adult and she should be held responsible but what about her father? what about the people who hired her, probably because she was cheaper?
I’ve always thought that if I was an actor I would need a lot of reassurance about a scene involving guns, particularly ones that involved me getting “shot”. It just goes against everything I learned and know to point a gun at someone. I have no doubt that I would put that same caution into being the shooter in a scene. I would make darn sure I checked the weapon and fully understood what was in it and how it works before I pointed it at someone, let alone pull the trigger. This girl is clearly negligent. Baldwin is in double jeopardy as both the actor and producer and should be held at least as accountable she is.
Holy Cow! After watching the behind the scenes videos, I couldn't believe how unprofessional that set was handled! Gun safety apparently wasn't even thought about when it came to how they were handling those weapons.
This guy and the gentleman who was the prop guy with the beard who testified was the only competent employees on the set I’ve seen on the set as of yet. That detective yesterday was clueless yesterday!
