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Originally Posted by DaFace
I think you're oversimplifying this quite a bit and making a lot of assumptions based on your dislike of the guy. He's one of six producers among five production companies. While it's remotely possible that he has some responsibility for decisions related to the crew, it's a pretty big leap to assume that he personally made the decision that they didn't need a union armorer on set. And even if he did, unless they knowingly hired someone who wasn't qualified, it still comes down to whoever's job it was to make sure the guns on set were safe.
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Where it gets dicey for Baldwin himself, all these considerations aside, is when assessing what duty he assumed as a person handling a firearm in the course of his professional duties to confirm/verify various elements of the status of said firearm, particularly when that handling involved pointing it in the direction of other persons and pulling the trigger.
That's where it comes to brass tacks, when you specifically are pointing an instrument that is CAPABLE of deadly force in the direction of other people, where does your duty to verify the specifics of the nullification of that capability first fall.