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You for meeting with them. and they understood about me doing the prop master and they said theyd get back to me about being the armor. and they never did get back to me. so i accepted another job. >> so, you know, stuart, even kind of forgetting the prior-red flags that we were learning about from some of the folks on this film, the sheriff confirmed today that it was, as we ever been talking about, it was the ad and this armorer who were the people handling the gun before handling it to alec b...

Camera operators had walked off the set to protest against working conditions. on the question of safety, heres the county sheriff again. i think the industry has had a record recently of being safe. i think there was some complacency to see on their set and i think there are some safety issues that need to be addressed by the industry and possibly by the state of new mexico but ill leave that up to the industry and the state to determine what those need to be. police say three people handled th...

But theyre still conducting the investigation. we know theyre going to do the witness interviews, but theyre not just going to rely on people in and around the set, theyll likely be interviewing shooting ranges, other places around this area, in order to determine whether some of these cast members were out conducting target practice or if they were out in one of these many remote fields. but it gets to the larger question, john, which is obviously unfathomable, is a live movie set filming a wes...

Five chambers. chambers. sheriff, how did two people inspect this gun and not notice there was a live round in it? >> were going to try and determine exactly how that happened. >> reporter: set guns contain either blanks or dummy bullet. a dummy is an empty shell casing used in training. blanks are capped with paper or plastic. real bullet are capped with lead and never allowed. >> were going to determine how those got there, why they were there, because they shouldnt have been there. >> reporte...

They had been interviewed. im talking about 100 people on scene in different areas. those people in close proximity to the incident have been intent. >> just for clarity, was there other live rounds in the chamber? >> not that were aware of. >>. >> the sheriff used the world complacency onset. how many do you have to go beyond complacency to get to criminal negligence. >> im not going to answer hypotheticals today. there is a bridge, but it takes many more facts before we goat that. >> complacen...

There was some complacency on this set, and i think there are some safety issues that need to be addressed by the industry and possibly by the state of new mexico. >> reporter: the weapon used by baldwin was the only working gun of the three seized by police from the movie set. other evidence included 500 rounds of ammo. >> thats a mix of blanks, dummy rounds and what we are suspecting live rounds. >> how did a live round wind up in that gun? that is the question i want to know as a da. who is r...

Low budget production. they were under the gun -- >> harris: which fuels the complaints. >> it was under the gun. the union camera crew had walked off the set earlier that day. they were trying to cut costs, trying to get the day in. again, therein lies the recklessness that was bred. we can say its recklessness. its beyond complacency. because somebody is dead. >> harris: guy, i want to come to you. im not going to profess to know what we dont know. i wont fill in the blanks about the weapon be...

A television or film project. so when we have actors and cameras and things like that around, we only use blanks. live ammunition is not permissible. >> you heard him talk about what he called some complacency on the set. obviously, in your view of listening to him, they did not follow protocol. other things he said, there was a limited staff, about 16 people in the immediate proximity of where this happened, but also as many as 90 people on-site. again, when youre going to be using firearms, ar...

What well call a shooting action so we dont know from our own reporter, jonathan hunt. well, is complacency a crime? we dont know what were looking at. im harris faulkner. youre watching "outnumbered." this is emily and kayleigh. emily, there were some things that popped. 500 round of ammunition, a mix of, you know, live ammunition, blanks, dummies. we dont know how many. your take. >> emily: heres what viewers need to understand. safety is no accident. so lets just take that general rule and le...

If safety is always a thing with gun and you heard the sheriff say that, its always a thing, did alec baldwin there were potential live rounds among the ammunition that they found? was there even a possibility of this happening and was he aware of it? >> there was a possibility. look, emily lied out the law beautifully, knew or should have known. let me give you alleged facts. these are facts that would be considered. one is that a stunt double discharge add prop weapon that he was told was a co...