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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Actor Alec Baldwin waved his gun around and used it “as a pointing stick” on the film set where a cinematographer was shot dead, a court heard Thursday.<\/p>\n

Footage seen at the trial of armourer Hannah Gutierrez showed Baldwin, who was also a producer on the budget Western Rust, gesticulating with a pistol loaded with blanks.<\/p>\n

It also showed him firing the gun within a few feet of camera operators and urging the young armourer to reload his guns quickly, chiding her for not having more weapons ready.<\/p>\n

“One more! One more! One more! Right away! Let’s reload!” Baldwin shouts after the director calls “cut.”<\/p>\n

“Here we go! C’mon,” he said. “We should have two guns and both we’re reloading.”<\/p>\n

The footage was being shown in the New Mexico courtroom where Gutierrez is on trial for involuntary manslaughter over the death of Halyna Hutchins.<\/p>\n

Hutchins died after being hit by a round fired from the Colt .45 that Baldwin was holding as cast and crew rehearsed a scene.<\/p>\n

Director Joel Souza was also hit by the bullet but later recovered.<\/p>\n

One of the key questions surrounding the death of Hutchins is how a live bullet found its way onto the set and into Baldwin’s gun.<\/p>\n

Gutierrez denies it was her fault and has blamed the ammunition supplier.<\/p>\n

Prosecution witness Bryan Carpenter, a firearms expert who has worked on dozens of films, said behind-the-scenes footage showed a lax attitude to gun safety on set.<\/p>\n

He said videos showing a performer wandering around with a shotgun in between takes, which he was lackadaisically pointing at other people, were examples of very poor “muzzle discipline.”<\/p>\n

He said as the film’s armourer, Gutierrez – who is also known as Hannah Gutierrez-Reed – should have never allowed this behaviour and should have removed the weapons from performers between takes.<\/p>\n

Carpenter said she should not have permitted herself to be hurried by Baldwin.<\/p>\n

“Rushing with firearms and telling someone to rush with firearms is not normal nor accepted,” he told the court.<\/p>\n

“In a situation like that, when you’re getting rushed to that extent, that’s when safety starts to fall by the wayside.”<\/p>\n

In one take, Baldwin is seen lying on the ground telling crew how he was going to get up and how he would be firing, using his gun to gesture.<\/p>\n

Asked if there was anything wrong with this from a firearms safety point of view, Carpenter replied: “He’s using the weapon as a pointing stick.”<\/p>\n

Under cross-examination, Carpenter acknowledged that as a young armourer just starting out in movies, putting an A-lister like Baldwin in his place could be tricky for Gutierrez.<\/p>\n

But, he said, that was part of the job.<\/p>\n

“If that is not something you feel capable of doing, you should never step into the position of doing it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Gutierrez denies involuntary manslaughter and an additional charge of tampering with evidence in relation to the alleged disposal of cocaine in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.<\/p>\n

Baldwin’s own trial on involuntary manslaughter, which he also denies<\/b>, is expected in July.<\/p>\n

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