Weapons specialist lawyers on set of Alec Baldwin film …

It was Hannah Gutierrez-Reed who appeared on the film set of Rust, in New Mexico, was responsible for the weapons. She is shocked after the facts, she said last week. After she passed the weapon on to the assistant director, who then to Alec Baldwin, the drama ensued: instead of a blank, a real bullet was fired. The camera director did not survive, a colleague was injured but survived.

In The Today Show Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers have now made some remarkable statements. They suggested there that it could well be sabotage by someone who was active on the film set. They point to the fact that several members of the crew had left the set a few hours before the incident in protest against the working conditions.

“I think anyone who does that would also want to sabotage the film to make a point,” said Jason Bowles, one of the attorneys. “To show that they are displeased and unhappy. I don’t think anyone can rule you out right now.”

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Bowles added that “we know there was a real bullet that shouldn’t have been there in a bunch of blanks.” “We also see people who had left the set, who had run away because they were angry. We have a period between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. that day when the guns were unguarded. There was plenty of time to mess with it.”

The ammunition was in a truck on set, said Robert Gorence, Gutierrez-Reed’s other attorney. “That vehicle was not guarded at all, everyone had the opportunity and access.” Their client prepared the ammunition, but then there were those two hours when no one was around.

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