Movie/film suggestions.

Baldwin was both producer and star, and why on Earth was live ammo even anywhere near the set??!!

In my mind, @thecarpathian , this is the six-million-dollar question.

@immatthewj I can't argue about guns, here or anywhere, I am anti-gun. If Baldwin thought it's fun to point the gun at someone and pull the trigger, he was well aware of the 0.001% (being generous) that the gun could go off with a bullet. Which is a reason not to play with gun and when you do, you take responsibility. He should have been convicted. He killed a person, a mother, a wife for no good reason other than recklessness. I believe it's a charge category, involuntary manslaughter which is even more unintentional than pointing a gun at someone and pulling the trigger, such as a vehicle accident.

Well, possibly so, @gano , and there is no point in us going circular, but as I previously typed, he was an actor on a movie set where actors routinely are pointing guns at one another. (I suspect that these actors are basically taking it for granted that the guns they are being supplied with are not loaded with live rounds.) However, I realize that they were not rolling at the time and that Ms. Hutchins was not an actress on the set, and perhaps that bears consideration as well.

@immathewj 

 he was an actor on a movie set where actors routinely are pointing guns at one another

That's a valid point. But if I were on the set in charge of safety, here is what I would do: 

1. lock the guns

2. lock (NOT HAVE) live ammo

3. when someone requests a gun, they have to hand it over to someone who looks at the magazine. Preferably 2 people, one after another. Then s/he can hand it back to the actor

4. why can't they use fake guns?

@gano 

3. when someone requests a gun, they have to hand it over to someone who looks at the magazine. Preferably 2 people, one after another. Then s/he can hand it back to the actor

Well, theoretically I believe that would be the job of the armorer, who, in this case, was Hannah Gutierrez Reed.  And I believe she took the fall.

4. why can’t they use fake guns?

I am about as tech-retarded as one can be, but I would assume that in this day and age of quite advanced AI, that something like that could be done and a shooting scene could be made to be quite realistic thanks to the magic of technology.  But I truly don’t understand that tech stuff.

Back when I was an airline mechanic I once worked in a shop where there were some guys with what I thought were some pretty wacked out ideologies. Which is the polite way of referring to the subject.  Anyway, they were into Civil War re-enactments, and one of them was telling me about one where someone slipped in some live ammo.  I don’t remember all the details, or even if it was a local re-enactment, but I said, "Good thing it wasn’t a Vietnam War re-enactment," which this guy didn’t think was as humorous as I did.

But that brings me to the movie Heat which you once mentioned you really enjoyed.  How about that last full-auto shoot-em-up scene?  I really don’t know what kind of special effects and graphics went into that, but just think if it was done with real guns and blanks (which maybe it wasn’t) and someone slipped in a 30 round mag loaded with live rounds into one of those ARs . . . wow.  Anyway, I suppose that scenario isn’t actually viable, as without getting too esoteric, I believe when they shoot blanks out of something in semi or full auto, they have to use special devices fitted to the muzzle which directs the muzzle gases backwards to work the action of the firearm.  (I think that’s how it works, anyway.)  So although the intention is not safety, it would work out as such.  Except for the operator of the particular firearm involved, in whose case it might be catastrophic.