Alec Baldwin files lawsuit in "Rust" shooting: he's the real victim

No one in their right mind would have Alec Baldwin serve as the starter of a race using a starter's gun after he shot and killed Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie "Rust." Sure, it was apparently an accident when he took a loaded gun that was supposed to be firing blanks, aimed it at Hutchins and pulled the trigger [which he denies, but the gun was tested and he was lying].

On Friday, the actor filed a lawsuit against the armorer and three others in the "Rust" crew for being responsible for Baldwin not checking to ensure it was loaded with blanks, rather than live rounds. It isn't known how the live round(s) got into the weapon, but somehow it did and Baldwin went on a denial tour in which he did everything except directly blame former President Donald Trump.

The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court as a cross complaint stemming from a previous suit in which a different member of the crew named Baldwin and the others as defendants.

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The new suit is one of a number of others stemming from the tragedy that happened on October 21, 2021 as the case remains under criminal investigation and could result in New Mexico filing charges and Alec Baldwin getting convicted of a crime rather than simple stupidity and total lack of gun safety knowledge.

Baldwin’s cross complaint names armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, first assistant director Dave Halls, prop supplier Seth Kenney, and prop master Sarah Zachry. Attorneys for Gutierrez-Reed, Halls and Kenney did not immediately respond to requests for statements in their clients’ defense. Reuters could not locate an attorney for Zachry and Darrell Brooks was unavailable to represent him as he is serving his own sentence for mass murder at the Waukesha Christmas Parade last November.

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Alec Baldwin blames guess who for "Rust" shooting

It has been about ten months since Alec Baldwin pointed a loaded gun at Halyna Hutchins on the set of "Rust," pulled the trigger [he swears he didn't] and the gun went off and killed Hutchins and wounded another person positioned behind her. Somehow, Baldwin considers himself the victim, proving he's as much of a narcissistic schmuck as he appears to be in public.

In a Comedy News Network interview on Saturday, Baldwin again tried to convince the person who watches CNN that he didn't pull the trigger of the gun that he didn't check before pointing it at Hutchins on Oct. 21, 2021. He merely pulled the hammer of the weapon back and it discharged. 

He didn't check the gun. He is an idiot because he didn't check the gun.

The FBI did a forensic investigation of the gun and in a report obtained by USA Today concluded the gun could not have been fired “without a pull of the trigger.” And since he was the only person holding the gun, he was the only one who could have pulled the trigger and killed Hutchins.

Baldwin continued to insist he didn't pull the trigger of the loaded gun he aimed at Halyna Hutchins despite a ton of evidence that he was lying. He insisted that he wasn't responsible for Hutchins' death.

Hoping to get sympathy for the accidental killing of Hutchins, he said that since he is innocent, it's Trump supporters who questioned his innocence are magically guilty of shooting Halyna Hutchins.

“The former president of the United States said, ‘He probably shot her on purpose,'” Baldwin told CNN. “To me, that was really the only time I thought that I needed — that I was worried about what was going to happen.

“Because here was Trump, who instructed people to commit acts of violence, and he was pointing the finger at me and saying I was responsible for the death.”

Except that's a crock of bull.

In an interview on “The Chris Stigall Show” podcast on Nov. 4, 2021, Trump was asked about the shooting and said of Baldwin, “He’s a volatile guy.”

“As bad as it may have been kept, meaning, you know, the people that take care of the equipment and the guns and everything else — but even if it was loaded, and that’s a weird thing — maybe he loaded it,” Trump said.

“He’s a cuckoo-bird. He’s a nut-job. And usually, when there’s somebody like that, you know, in my opinion, he had something to do with it,” the former President correctly said.

“But if nothing else, how do you take a gun and just, whether it’s loaded or not loaded, how do you take a gun, point it at somebody that’s not even in the movie and just point it at this person and pull the trigger and now she’s dead?” former President Trump asked.

Second, Baldwin's suggestion that Trump “instructed people to commit acts of violence” had nothing to do about Baldwin but was likely referring to Jan. 6, 2021, which also was contrary to the facts. Trump never called for violence and in fact, told people to protest peacefully.

Baldwin was implying that Trump supporters would attempt to harm him or worse, after Trump said he was guilty. This is such a crap weasel assumption by the actor about half the nation and he said it with zero evidence.

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Baldwin probably didn't mean to kill Hutchins but he pointed a real gun at her, assuming it was unloaded. He had to pull the trigger, whether he believes it or knows he did.

It's the not checking the gun, pointing it at a person, and pulling the trigger that makes Alec Baldwin come off as a narcissist and the jerk we all know he is.

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Baldwin still claims he didn't pull the trigger in "Rust" shooting that killed Halyna Hutchins

The FBI concluded after months of testing that the gun Alec Baldwin held and aimed at Halyna Hutchins when it went off and killed her, needed the trigger to be pulled in order to fire. But Baldwin insisted he didn't pull the trigger and nothing was is fault.

Baldwin was handed the loaded gun and was told it was not loaded. He didn't check to ensure this and failed to follow the simple rule that is taught by the NRA, the military and anyone who knows anything about firearms: treat all firearms as if they are loaded.

Baldwin appeared on Fredo Cuomo's YouTube extravaganza, "The Chris Cuomo Project," where he claimed the gun that went off and killed Ms, Hutchins, a cinematographer for "Rust," happened when he was practicing a technique known as "fanning." And just like that, the violent gun went off and shot her and the guy standing behind her.

Baldwin, a self-described violent gun expert said, “If you pull the hammer back far enough … the hammer didn’t lock … it would fire the bullet without you pulling the trigger.”

It turned out the FBI experts disagreed. They concluded that with this gun, the trigger had to be pulled.

Baldwin said that a safety officer told him it was safe to do this since the weapon was “cold,” meaning that it was not loaded with bullets. For someone who knows as much about firearms as a blowfish knows about astronomy, that was good enough for him.

“Everyone on set knows what happened that day,” Baldwin insisted.

Yes. They know that he was holding a gun that he ASSumed wasn't loaded because he was told that, and he aimed it at Halyna Hutchins and the gun went off and killed her. This is what they know.

Alex Baldwin demonstrated the “fanning” technique that he says set off the gun on the set of “Rust” last October.

“Everyone who was there knows exactly what happened and exactly who is to blame.”

Everyone but him.

Baldwin’s latest cry from the heart comes just days after his lawyer scrambled to defuse the damning results of an FBI report that said the gun, a F.lli Pietta 45 Long Colt Revolver, could not have gone off without being deliberately fired.

“The FBI report is being misconstrued,” the lawyer, another self-proclaimed firearm expert said in a statement. 

While Baldwin admitted that he was anxious to learn if the New Mexico DA will pursue criminal charges over the accident, he acknowledged that “the real tragedy” was Hutchins’ death and especially how it might ruin his career.

“I am not the victim here,” he said, as he played the victim.

The conversation took a bizarre turn when Baldwin tried to illustrate what he believes is the media’s skewed perception of his actions.

“If George Bush’s mother Barbara fell through the ice on a pond and I waded into the pond and saved her life, they’d say I groped her. They’d say I squeezed her breast while I was pulling her out of the pond,” Baldwin insisted.Cuomo and Baldwin bonded over their experience of media disparagement.YouTube/The Chris Cuomo Project

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“It doesn’t matter what you do,” he lamented. “The ones that are out to get you are out to get you.”

"Yeah, breast-groping Barbara Bush's breast," Cuomo said wistfully. "Tell me about it."

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Alec Baldwin in hot water from "Rust" says FBI

According to the findings of an FBI forensic report, the revolver that was held by actor Alec Baldwin that fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie "Rust" could not have fired without pulling the trigger. So Baldwin, who said the gun went off by itself was lying.

Baldwin also told law enforcement at the time that he thought he was handling a gun that was not loaded with live ammunition. What he was never taught, evidently, is that all guns need to be treated as if they were loaded with live ammunition.

The FBI report as per ABC News says the .45 Colt revolver  “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger” while in a quarter-cocked position, a half-cocked position, and a fully-cocked position.

So Baldwin may be in bigger trouble than former President Donald Trump, a person Baldwin often spoofed on SNL.

If the hammer on the gun was in the de-cocked position, the firearm could discharge a round by striking the hammer, which is a standard way that a revolver operates.

Late last year in an ABC News interview with George Stephanopoulos, Baldwin said that he pulled “the hammer as far back as I could without cocking” it and then he “let go of the hammer” and “bang, the gun goes off.”

Those damn violent guns. What are they going to do about them?

Baldwin said in the interview that “the trigger wasn’t pulled,” “I didn’t pull the trigger,” “I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them,” and “someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property.”

But he didn't check the gun himself, he did pull the trigger, and he pointed the gun at Hutchins and he shot and killed her due to his failure to ensure the gun wasn't loaded. By the way, you don't put a bullet in a gun, you put a round in a gun. The bullet is the thing on the business end of the round that is shot out of the gun.

The Washington Post published a fact-check article after Baldwin's interview that quoted various firearm experts who expressed skepticism over Baldwin’s claims because they sounded bogus.

Santa Fe District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwie effectively said in a statement earlier this month that nothing was being ruled out in terms of what prosecutors could do.

“Once the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office (‘FJDA’) receives the completed investigation from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office (‘SFSO’), the FJDA will begin the screening process and any necessary follow-up investigation,” she said in a statement. “To date, my office has received portions of the Rust investigation from SFSO but is still awaiting the balance of supplemental reports including, but not limited to, the following: FBI firearm and tool mark analyses, forensic testing on the firearm itself, the forensic download from Suffolk County PD of Mr. Baldwin’s phone, and the pathology report from the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator.”

“Once SFSO receives those—and any other outstanding items—and completes its supplemental reports, the screening process will begin, and my team and I will make a charging decision,” she continued. “To expedite the FJDA review process, I have added retired Ninth Judicial District Attorney, Andrea Reeb to the team, as a special prosecutor for this case. To remain transparent to the local and national community, the FJDA will proactively disseminate information as it becomes available.”

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It's obvious Baldwin shot Hutchins, not out of anger or vengeance, but out of sheer ignorance of how to handle a firearm. But he needs to be held accountable for his ignorance and his vile temper. Perhaps he should be traded with the Russians for Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan. He can entertain the Russian jailers with his Trump impersonations.

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Alec Baldwin blames his dead victim for him shooting her

It takes a special kind of scum weasel to be irresponsible with a firearm, shoot someone and then blame the victim for her death. This scum weasel is Alec Baldwin and words cannot express how much he is loathed by anyone who has ever had a smidgeon of firearms safety training under their belt.

Baldwin has filed legal papers that lay out some of the blame on the person he shot and killed with a handgun: Halyna Hutchins.

Ms. Hutchins was a Hollywood cinematographer whose career was beginning to climb before Alec Baldwin held a firearm, pointed it at her and the gun went off and killed her. They were filming a movie called "Rust."

In Baldwin's recent court filing, he claims that his contract with the movie productions shields him from any financial responsibility for the deadly shooting, which occurred on the New Mexico set. It also claims that it was Hutchins who told the chronically angry Baldwin where to aim the gun that ended her life. Evidently, she assumed it was not loaded and that Baldwin had checked it. Even if she didn't assume the latter, it is always, always, always the responsibility of the person with the gun to practice gun safety and that means the first thing one does is check to see if it is loaded. 

Baldwin did not check the gun.

The filing says Hutchins “directed Baldwin to hold the gun higher, to a point where it was directed toward her. She was looking carefully at the monitor and then at Baldwin, and then back again, as she gave these instructions.”

And before Baldwin followed her directions for the shot, he did not check the gun.

The court document argues that it was clear Hutchins thought the gun was unloaded — or “cold,” using Hollywood terminology. Of course she did--anyone who directs someone to point a firearm at them for a movie would think the weapon was not loaded. But the responsibility always lies with the person holding the weapon.

“In giving and following these instructions, Hutchins and Baldwin shared a core, vital belief: that the gun was ‘cold’ and contained no live rounds,” the document says. 

So Baldwin shared a core, vital BELIEF, that the gun was "cold." 

Baldwin’s filing also says Hutchins instructed Baldwin to pull back the firearm’s hammer.

It goes on to assert that it was not Baldwin’s responsibility to check the firearm he was handed to see if it was loaded because the movie’s guns were under the authority of the set armorer.

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But the document is full of crap. It was Baldwin's responsibility. He is also, ironically, against the ownership of firearms and the Second Amendment. That makes sense when you consider that he still claims that he didn't pull the trigger. If guns have minds of their own, then owning one could get you in trouble if it decides to kill someone.

Baldwin is a despicable individual and will likely get away with this mindless and senseless shooting, scot- free as New Mexico authorities haven't filed any charges against him.

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Gun shoots, kills Halyna Hutchins without provocation Baldwin asserts

He didn't pull the trigger, didn't aim the evil gun in his hand that shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of "Rust."

"I would never carefully aim a gun at anyone, much less pull the thingy that makes the gun go bang," Baldwin told fellow Democrat and Clinton staffer George Stephanopoulos. "Somehow that gun ended the life of a beautiful person. Maybe it was rusty. . . . yeah, that's what it was, rusty."

According to gun experts and kids who watch westerns, guns don't go off by themselves, even when they're occasionally half-cocked. But that's the story Alec Baldwin gave and he's sticking with it.

Some say he got the idea from the Compromised News Network's reporting on the Waukesha attack by a black man driving his SUV into a crowd of white parade marchers on Thanksgiving. CNN reported the story as if the vehicle did it on its own, never mentioning anything about a driver intentionally running over children and elderly marchers. Had the driver been white and the marchers been black, well that's a different headline.

Baldwin evidently knows as much about firearms as FDR knew about cell phones. Even if the gun actually did have a mind of its own, or just went off without outside causation, the one thing a person holding a firearm must do is to check to ensure it isn't loaded, and to never, never, ever point it at anything they're not planning to shoot.

Evidently, Baldwin had to be pointing it at the late Ms. Hutchins on October 21st when the .45 Colt revolver went off.

Weird that it did by itself, however. In order to fire the Colt revolver the hammer must be cocked back and the trigger pulled. If the hammer is not cocked back, you could drop the gun and it still would not fire. It's a two-step process to fire the gun and it would be incredibly rare for it to go off by itself.

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Baldwin can point fingers at the weapons armorer or any of the stage hands responsible for the props, but ultimately the person with the gun in hand is responsible for the gun and its safety measures.

“I would never point a gun at anyone and pull a trigger at them. Never," Baldwin told Stephanopoulos, and claims that he has "no idea" how a live bullet got on the set.

"Someone put a live bullet in a gun, a bullet that wasn’t even supposed to be on the property," he adds.

"Guns don't just go off," Sheriff Adan Mendoza told Fox News Digital. "So whatever needs to happen to manipulate the firearm, he did that and it was in his hands."

Film and prop historian Michael Corrie explained to Fox News that firing a revolver without pulling the trigger would require a "mechanical failure."

"The hammer needs to be fully locked to the rear for the weapon to function," Corrie explained. "Which necessitates manual operation of the weapon."

And that, dear readers, is why you are the last in line of responsibility of the firearm.

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Alec Baldwin discharges prop gun killing one, injuring another: latest info on incident

Had he taken even one NRA firearms safety course, anti First Amendment actor Alec Baldwin, 63, would not have discharged a prop handgun on a movie set that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, 42, and seriously injured Joel Souza, 48, the writer and director of the film they were doing at the time. Baldwin would have treated the gun as if it was loaded, even when he believed it wasn't. 

That's basic handgun safety.

According to the Santa Fe County Sheriff's office, the shooting occurred at the Bonanza Creek Ranch movie set where an independent film "Rust" was being filmed, which stars Baldwin. 

Juan Rios, a spokesman for the sheriff's office told the Alburquerque Journal that scene being filmed involved the use of a prop firearm," which discharged.

Since the fatal incident occurred, an eyewitness of the shooting came forward. 

Halyna Hutchins

Evidently, a bullet was discharged that struck Ms. Hutchins and went through her body and struck Souza in the clavicle. The set was immediately locked down and an ambulance and helicopters arrived taking Souza and Hutchins to the hospital but the latter died en route in a helicopter.

Meanwhile, Baldwin appeared to be in shock but was composed enough to imply that he was handed a "hot gun." The witness said he kept repeating, "In all my years, I've never been handed a hot gun."

Had he taken an NRA gun safety course, he would have treated all guns as if they were "hot guns," meaning that they were loaded with real ammunition.

Baldwin was also taken to the hospital to meet with the people he victimized but he didn't know Hutchins had died on the way.

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No matter what anyone thinks about the carelessness of the prop person who handed Baldwin the gun, had he taken an NRA weapons safety training course, it would not have happened. 

Let's see if Baldwin tries to blame the gun rather than the person firing it. Perhaps he will even more vehemently advocate for gun confiscation and gun control, but even if that had been the case prior to the incident, Hutchins would still be dead, because Alec Baldwin had never been handed a "hot gun" before this hot gun was handed to him.

Obviously Baldwin did not intend for this to happen and he should not face jail time. But he needs to understand that all guns are loaded. Always. Even when they aren't. 

"Rust" is done. 

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