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Alec Baldwin, armorer charged with involuntary manslaughter in shooting on “Rust” set

January 19, 2023 by Cam Edwards Leave a Comment

More than a year after a gun held by actor Alec Baldwin discharged on the set of the movie “Rust” in New Mexico, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, prosecutors in Santa Fe, New Mexico have decided to charge Baldwin and Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the film’s armorer, with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. Additionally, Santa Fe First Judicial District Attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies and special prosecutor Andrea Reeb announced that “Rust” first assistant director David Halls has agreed to plead guilty to charges of negligent use of a deadly weapon.

Conviction on the involuntary manslaughter charge could result in an 18-month sentence, but Carmack-Altweis is also going for a firearm enhancement that could add on a mandatory five years behind bars upon conviction.

Baldwin and the movie’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, each will be charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. One of the counts is for involuntary manslaughter, in which prosecutors will have to prove there is underlying negligence, prosecutors said. This is a fourth-degree felony that carries a sentence of up to 18 months in jail and a $5,000 fine.

The second charge is involuntary manslaughter in the commission of a lawful act, a more severe charge which requires proof that there was more than simple negligence involved in a death, prosecutors said. This charge includes a firearm enhancement, which adds a mandatory penalty of five years in jail.

Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed will be charged under a standard called “charged in the alternative.” If the case ends up going to trial, a jury will determine which of the two charges they’re guilty of.

That’s a pretty big “if”, honestly. Halls received six months probation and a suspended sentence after taking the plea deal offered by prosecutors, and while Baldwin and Gutierrez-Reed might not get as sweet an offer as that one, I’m sure that some deal will be dangled before a jury is seated. For the moment, however, both defendants sound like they’re planning on defending themselves.

The prosecutors’ decision is “a terrible miscarriage of justice,” said Luke Nikas, Baldwin’s attorney. “Mr. Baldwin had no reason to believe there was a live bullet in the gun – or anywhere on the movie set. He relied on the professionals with whom he worked, who assured him the gun did not have live rounds. We will fight these charges, and we will win.”

Gutierrez-Reed’s attorneys called it a “very flawed investigation” in a statement Thursday.

“Hannah is, and has always been, very emotional and sad about this tragic accident. But she did not commit involuntary manslaughter,” they said.

Baldwin has maintained that he didn’t pull the trigger of the single-action revolver, which had been loaded with live rounds instead of dummy ammunition. Instead, he says the gun fired on his own; something the FBI was unable to replicate when it examined and tested the firearm.

Accidental discharge testing determined that the firearm used in the shooting — a .45 Colt (.45 Long Colt) caliber F.lli Pietta single-action revolver — could not have fired without the trigger being pulled, the FBI report shows.

With the hammer in the quarter- and half-cock positions, the gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger,” the report stated.

With the hammer fully cocked, the gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional,” the report stated.

With the hammer de-cocked on a loaded chamber, the gun was able to detonate a primer “without a pull of the trigger when the hammer was struck directly,” which is normal for this type of revolver, the report stated.

On the day of the shooting, Hall picked up the revolver and handed it to Gutierrez-Reed, who in turn gave it to Baldwin. None of the three apparently checked to ensure that the gun contained dummy rounds instead of live ammunition, but Baldwin has maintained that doing so wouldn’t be standard procedure for an actor. Instead, he and his attorneys have argued that making sure the gun was safe was the responsibility of crew members like Hall and Gutierrez-Reed.

A lawsuit filed against Baldwin and other “Rust” producers by Hutchins family was settled last year, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the criminal charges are also resolved via a plea deal before a trial takes place. So far Baldwin’s been eager to argue his case in the court of public opinion but we’ll see if that bravado lasts when his stage is an actual courtroom instead.

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We were nominated to be person of the year!

December 21, 2022 by John Petrolino Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to be in-studio in upstate New York for a recording of Dan Wos’s The Loaded Mic podcast. Wos, a renowned writer, my colleague over at AmmoLand News, commentator, and author of the Good Gun Bad Guy book series, invited me to be a guest on his show. We were having some cigars in Dallas a couple of months ago at the Gun Rights Policy Conference when we made our plans. Wos and his co-hosts, John Chiara and Anthony Deso, took content creator Charlie Cook and I in to record a Christmas Special full of hijinx. Cook, the personality known for the award winning show Riding Shotgun With Charlie and from Charlie’s Gun Grams, congratulated us all. Congratulations were in order? Apparently we were all nominated for and made the short list for Time Person of the Year (POY). Cook had called me a few days prior to let me in on the special news before his announcement on the show.

Towards the beginning of the month, The Hill announced who was in the running for Time magazine’s POY. Time has been naming a POY since the twenties and we’ve seen figures from all different walks of life receive the honor.

The spoiler alert here is Time has since announced their person of the year, Volodymyr Zelensky. Zelensky, the actor, or is it President of Ukraine, took the honor and glory from us. But that’s not to mean there’s reason we shouldn’t celebrate.

Before diving into us, here’s who else was tapped with equal weight to potentially be the winningest person. I sure do have some mixed feelings about the list.

Elon Musk
Xi Jinping
The Supreme Court
Liz Cheney
MacKenzie Scott
Protesters in Iran
Ron DeSantis
Janet Yellen

Finally us. Gun safety advocates. I’m assuming many that cruise the pages of Bearing Arms are advocates for gun safety, no? You know, treat every gun as if it’s loaded. Keep the finger off the trigger. All that stuff, right? Because that’s gun safety.

Sadly, you already know where this is going. They were not talking about real safety advocates but about those pesky pinko gun-grabbers. Here’s what The Hill had to say about “gun safety advocates”:

While the U.S. is rocked by gun violence every year, 2022 was particularly painful for many Americans.

The mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, shocked the nation and was one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history. The tragedy led to the first bipartisan law on gun control in decades.

After Uvalde — and a deadly hate attack in Buffalo, N.Y. — thousands demonstrated across the U.S. to call for stricter gun control laws.

None of that has to do with gun safety, we know this. That’s the huge joke of how these groups present themselves. How they identify. I have emailed Moms Demand Action in the past and asked them where I could take one of their gun safety courses, a story I relayed on The Loaded Mic. I’m still waiting on an answer from the commie mommies. When Cook congratulated us all, we all had a good laugh at the expense of these so-called “safety advocates”, but really, there’s nothing funny about it.

For Time to tap this “group” for Person of the Year is laughable. Was it because the “first bipartisan law on gun control in decades” got passed and signed? Has Time looked into what Biden’s law actually did? Essentially nothing. Not really nothing, but not much of anything either. Don’t get me wrong, the GOP members that supported the measure are traitors, but the law was not exactly the “turn em all in” that the pinkos really want.

2022 is a post NYSRPA v. Bruen time. The other day I referenced the present time as the beginning of the golden age to removing restrictions on the civil liberty of arms ownership, procurement, possession, and carry. To see an anti-civil liberties movement be selected for their extraordinary efforts to try and usurp the rights of their countrymen is deplorable.

Was Democrat Governor Wallace the Person of the Year during the civil rights movement post Brown v. Board of Ed? No. In 1963, the year that Wallace stood in the doorway of the schoolhouse, the Time Man of the Year was Martin Luther King, Jr. President Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act, was Man of the Year following King.

As noted, The Hill mentioned The Supreme Court in the running. What did they have to say about SCOTUS in regards to such a nomination?

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year-old case precedent Roe v. Wade in June, enacting one of the most controversial rulings in the high court’s modern history.

With abortion no longer protected under the Constitution, the ruling opened the door for about half of the states to severely restrict abortion access.

Justice Clarence Thomas was also among the most controversial figures in the news this year, after his wife was reportedly involved with the Trump administration’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.

And Thomas called for a reexamination of the constitutionally protected right to a same-sex marriage, which set off congressional action.

Nothing about the biggest civil rights case to be decided on in a great while? Nothing on NYSRPA v. Bruen? The talking heads were fixated on the big “A”, which is not within the bounds of exploration here, among other topics that have been explored at sister sites such as Townhall.

Cook, myself, Wos and his staff all made jest over the joke about who the real gun safety advocates are. In reality, yes we should all be considered for this honor. All of us that are lovers of freedom should be earmarked as POYs. Not the so-called “gun safety advocates” who are paid shills. The Moms Demand Action women in “leadership” positions, who do nothing but take orders from a rich man are worthy? Quite empowering for the women by Mr. Bloomberg’s hand. He’s a regular feminist.

The irony of the two hour long special we recorded with Wos at his headquarters is that YouTube has since canceled The Loaded Mic show. Wos broke the Christmas special up into two parts. One aired on Friday the 16th of December, which you can view HERE or in the embed below. Shortly after running it, The Loaded Mic got their walking papers from YouTube.

The second half is due to roll out on Friday the 30th. So keep your eyes on their Rumble page. 

What offensive act did we all, or Wos and his crew, commit? Nothing other than speaking our minds…you know, that exercising of our civil liberties. As a matter of fact, content we thought would get the show banned from YouTube was cut out of the version published there. The episode I was on broke the podcast! At least that’s what I’m telling people, even though Wos said it was a show from over a year ago that created their demise. According to Wos, that show is worth a gander (well, it did get them completely deplatformed by YouTube).

Tune into The Loaded Mic to see what all the hub-bub was all about. It’s a cutting edge show and the latest canceled YouTube content that fell as a casualty to the woke rage mob. The Loaded Mic is over on Rumble as well as many popular podcast pages. You won’t hear from any of Time’s Persons of the Year on the show, but you’ll surely be entertained and enlightened by Wos, his co-hosts, and their guests. Besides, you can hear me rattle on for a two part episode about all the same crazy nonsense I write about here at Bearing Arms.

Part one of the Christmas Special Episode 103 is HERE & below. Stay tuned for part two rolling out Friday the 30th!

Filed Under: <![CDATA[Gun Control]]>, <![CDATA[gun safety]]>, <![CDATA[Loaded Mic podcast]]>, <![CDATA[Second Amendment]]>, <![CDATA[Social Media]]>, <![CDATA[Time Magazine]]>, <![CDATA[Video]]>, Bearing Arms, News

Florida deputy shot, killed after roommate and fellow deputy allegedly ignores gun safety rules

December 5, 2022 by Cam Edwards Leave a Comment

I’ve got a range safety poster from the 1950s on my office wall, and the very first rule is “Treat every gun as it were loaded until you personally prove otherwise.” That fundamental rule, along with the rule about keeping your muzzle pointed in a safe direction at all times, was allegedly violated by a sheriff’s deputy in Florida this past weekend, leading to the death of his roommate and manslaughter charges being filed.

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey says Deputy Austin Walsh was shot and killed early Saturday morning by fellow deputy Andrew Lawson in what the sheriff described as a “tragic and totally avoidable death.”

The two were taking a break from playing online games with friends and were standing and talking together when Lawson, who believed he had unloaded his gun, “jokingly” pointed the weapon at Walsh and pulled the trigger, Ivey said, citing the probe by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Palm Bay Police Department.

A single bullet was fired, struck Walsh, and killed him, officials said.

Lawson immediately called 911 saying he accidentally shot his roommate and needed help, Ivey said. When officers arrived, they found Lawson “fully distraught and devastated.”

They found Walsh inside the residence where he “apparently succumbed immediately” to a gunshot wound, Ivey said.

Ivey said the two men were “the best of friends” and Lawson is “completely devastated” over what happened.

…

“Folks this unnecessary and totally avoidably incident not only took the life of an amazing young man and deputy, but it has forever changed the life of another good young man who made an extremely poor and reckless decision,” Ivey said.

The sheriff said talking about the fatal incident was “one of the toughest days of my career” as he loved both of the deputies and believed both to be “good kids.”

Walsh had served with the agency since he was 18 and was part of its Explorers youth program before that, according to the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page.

“If nothing else, I pray there is a lesson learned from this tragedy,” Ivey said.

The lesson here is simple: don’t **** around and treat your guns like they’re toys. You don’t “jokingly” point a gun at anyone, regardless of whether or not  you believe the gun is unloaded.

Lawson should have been ingrained to follow these rules, and yet apparently completely and willfully ignored them. As a result, two lives have been destroyed, and a good man is gone too soon.

Walsh’s accused killer is currently sitting in the Brevard County Jail on a no-bond warrant and charged with manslaughter for the 23-year old’s “dumb and avoidable” actions, which Ivey described as an “accident”. I’d use the term negligence, to be honest, because I don’t consider this to be an accident. You don’t accidentally pick up a gun and point it at someone. You don’t accidentally pull the trigger. You may mistakenly believe that a gun is unloaded, but you don’t “accidentally” believe that to be the case. There were a series of inexplicably bad decisions made in the moments before Austin Walsh’s life was taken, and while they were all huge mistakes, none of them were accidents.

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