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It is not different rules by profession although there are several laws based on profession. It is a reasonable belief of a person in that position. Look at Brandon Lee’s death. There was a real revolver used but it was loaded with dummy rounds. That way when the camera got a close-up shot of the front of the revolver, people would see the cartridges in the gun. To make the dummy rounds, the armor is removed. The projectile had dumped out the powder and seed the projectile. The rounds had no powder but appeared to be a live rounds when looked at closely on camera. Of course the armorer is to remove the primer also. Oops, he forgot! The actor fired the incorrectly modified dummy round and the primer which wasn’t removed, detonated and was just strong enough to push the projectile a short distance into the barrel. So in the next scene they removed the dummy rounds and replaced them with blanks which had a powder charge and no projectile. The actor fired the actual blank at Brandon Lee from about 15 feet. The projectile that was stuck in the barrel basically made the blank round equivalent of an actual round and it killed Lee. There were no convictions in Lee’s death. You can see where an actor is relying on someone else to properly load and check the firearms and ammo. The actor doesn’t go into a room and start disassembling bullets, pouring out powder and then reseating the rounds. They hire people to do that. In Lee’s case the actor was supposed to be given a revolver with a blank round in it. It had a blank round all right but because of the previous screw up by the armor, it turned it into a fully functioning firearm by accident and it killed Lee.

… which is a state jail felony with a maximum sentence of two years in state jail. NM laws could be significantly different but they probably have similar elements.

That is exactly what I was talking about. If he brought the revolver and bullets onto the set and then he grabbed the wrong one, he is likely guilty of killing someone with at least criminal negligence which is Criminally Negligent Homicide in Texas as an example.

I will bring it up again, did he know it was a firearm? A fake, a prop gun, a kid’s cap pistol and an exact replica air soft gun are not firearms.

I’m not positive, but I’m fairly certain that the FBI was not involved nor has any interest in this case except at the request of the state DA for a lab test. It isn’t a federal crime. The DA is merely trying to cover all their bases. It is obvious that Baldwin pulled the trigger. I have shot a few of those types of single action revolvers and they can have what people call a hair trigger. It is extremely easy on some firearms to fire the shot accidentally by merely touching the trigger. Been there, done that… with the muzzle being pointed in a safe direction. So was it an accident and he didn’t intend to shoot? Does he think that he didn’t intentionally pull the trigger? Is he only lying to look more innocent in the public? The DA wanted to know and/or prove that the weapon could not be fired by dropping it, bumping it, etc. It depends on their state laws but in Texas as an example, merely pointing a firearm and someone ,even if you believe it is unloaded, is a crime. It is called Deadly Conduct. I believe that the main question will come down to, did Baldwin know that he was holding a real firearm capable of firing real bullets or did he reasonably believe that it was a prop gun and could only fire blanks or not at all? I have no idea how they will prosecute this case but I have seen some articles that suggested that the indictment was based partly on the fact that Baldwin hired a person who was unqualified to be the armorer. That may be true, however, does that make him culpable of a crime? If a Chief Of Police hires a police officer and two months later the officer makes a horrible mistake and kills an innocent person, does the chief go to jail for murder? Suing the police department and the chief is understandable for negligent hiring or negligent retention. That is far different than charging the police chief with murder when he/she was no part of the incident. Is it normal for actors to be handed a non-firing weapon by a person hired to do exactly that? Is it standard that the actor to always then inspect the gun and fake bullets to make sure there the armorer was correct (why hire an armorer then?) or do they trust the crew? It might be now a new rule but was it at that time? How many times was Clint Eastwood, John Wayne, Robert Duvall, etc., given a gun that they didn’t check it? I think people are making silly argument that, everybody that handles firearms knows that you always check it and never point somebody. That is completely true however, that is not a movie set which is basically all fake. So beyond a reasonable doubt, did Baldwin know the he was handling a firearm (a non-firing item is not a firearm) or maybe did he bring a real revolver onto the set and especially did he put it next to a prop gun? Then he perhaps saw a couple of guns and grabbed the wrong one? Yep, he might be guilty but I think that is the burden that the DA has to prove.

But not looking good is not a crime. I was answering Hippy when he said they might get him for lying.

Unknown. I doubt it and almost certainly if he had a lawyer.

You mean on that television interview where he was trying to look good in public?

Where did he lie?

I think it’s the DA grasping at straws. Why does it take a local DA almost two years to come up with a negligence charge? This was not an issue of who the parties are. We know the victim, we know who pulled the trigger, where and when and have known it from the moment 911 was called. So the DA goes to the grand jury with everything they have and gets an indictment, but then realizes it will never fly. Back to the drawing board to try to figure out another angle.

And that has what to do with this case?

People have to strike when the iron is hot. I could certainly be wrong, and I don’t feel like looking it up, but I think that DeSantis is about to be term limited. Anything can happen however it is likely much better to run as a popular governor at that time, as opposed to just a former governor a few years ago. Bill Clinton was the sitting governor of Arkansas when elected. George Bush who replaced him, was he sitting governor of Texas when elected.

Look up about a dozen posts….. 😄

On another site I saw names like Sports Indoctrinated and Woke Illustrated…. 🤣

With I believe 18 points from 3 point land..

7:30 game time

Good thing they are Li-ion and not Li-po batteries. Li-po batteries can be dangerous and more prone to swelling and catching fire if kept at full charge. Good brands line in my drones have an auto discharge feature. After a couple of days, the battery will discharge itself to a safe storage level. That is why refurbished and cheap knock off lithium batteries are a bad deal but Li-ion are safer.

Refurbished batteries and crap people are buying from Temu…. Gee, and they are catching fire🔥? Who would have guessed? 🤣

🤣🤣🤣 As they say, the DA could indict a ham sandwich….. But it’s taken this DA almost 2.5 years to find another expert and angle to charge him.

I agree 100%…. that you used a lot and not alot.

OMG!! Trump Bill ClInton JFK FDR

If Trump wins this time it will be the same reason as he won in 2016…… because the Democrat machine chose their insider candidate, who was horrible. Notice that Trump didn’t win with Pence in 2020.

Maybe a week ago….. It’s almost over in NH. Then the snowball will start growing as it rolls downhill.

Probably the most interesting topic will be who Trump picks for his vice president. Trump is so unpredictable there is no telling who it will be.

I don’t think it’s a person but the inside power players of the DNC. I have said it before, but it’s probably too late for anyone to get in many of the primaries and start campaigning. Super Tuesday is coming up in about six weeks. I have a hard time believing they are going to stand by and let Biden run again. If he gets a majority of the delegates however, with virtually no one running against him in the primaries, he can then give them away. Biden (not actually him) will send all of his pledged votes to the DNC’s choice. When? When Biden has the votes to gain the nomination or nearly so. Biden will come out and say that he’s had a change of heart or that he doesn’t feel up to it or even that he promised 4 years ago that he would only be a one term president and has now decided to stick by his word. That will lock out anyone getting into the race, except who the DNC wants. Harris? Newson? I think that it will have to be Gavin Newsom. Behind the scenes there’s going to be a lot of finger pointing and arguing to push Harris to the front of the ticket but eventually it won’t happen. She would have to refuse to debate or risk looking like a cackling hen on stage. Newsom can actually debate. I won’t like about 98.7% of what he says but he can at least string an intelligible sentence together. But there could be an outlier like Michelle Obama. Remember that Hilary Clinton became a senator from New York and eventually Secretary of State having no experience except being the wife of a president.