"Rust" armourer sentenced to 18 months over the death of Halyna Hutchins

[xdecadentx]

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, armourer who loaded gun for actor Alec Baldwin before fatal Rust film set shooting, sentenced to 18 months https://t.co/23hmNAjK2d
- BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) April 15, 2024
- Hannah Gutierrez-Reed who loaded the before it was handed to Alec Baldwin and fired resulting in Hutchins' death

Comments

[emptyobsidian]

The fact that she was a nepo hire is wild to me. Of all the things to NOT hire a nepo baby, maybe handling live weapons is one of them!?

[genbu_no_miko24]

A nepo-hire with an already bad reputation cause Nicolas Cage wanted her off his set in a prior direction for carelessness. A live gun went off on their set iirc.

[skyler_white_yo]

Yes, she randomly fired a gun on set without warning, and Cage lost his shit on her, and rightfully so.

[genbu_no_miko24]

She was also pointing guns in people's direction which is a big no-no. A lot of actors will mention how armorers will yell at them if they start playing around with the guns and pointing it at people regardless if its loaded or not.

[theactualworst]

Rule number one of gun handling is always treat it like it’s loaded.

[myhipusername]

jfc knowing this makes this even more frustrating, she continued to disregard safety rules and now it costed someone their life. i hope she can find some guilt while in jail

[squirrels_oh_no]

IIRC from reading about her, she only got into guns because she wanted to actually know her father (and some sources say stepfather which would make sense given the rest of the info) - he was gone a lot of her childhood and not very present, even if he did raise her. He's in his 80s. And her entire training was through him. Shouldn't gun safety training be professionally done and not through one's elderly father through work experience when he's more gunslinger than gun safety expert?

ETA: Forgot to add she said she wanted to be an influencer/model and got the armorer gigs when influencing didn't pan out and she went back to her dad for help.

[rubie_dubidoux]

tbf this is such a random/obscure super-specialized career that idk how you'd even get into it in the first place if you weren't already closely associated with someone already doing it... I'm guessing that a significant percentage of people in this particular line of work are in some way there bc of nepotism