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Loaded that is something we teach everyone onset, always assume a gun is loaded, it gets checked, checked again and checked a third time and everybody responsible for it needs to check it including the actor. the actor is the person whos going to be the one ultimately using it and when the gun comes into your hands, you have to be the person to check it and understand the lethality that could come with it. it was a failure on all fronts. >> shannon: investigation as its underway now, its early o...

And he was assuming that those were dummies as you say, all of this is part of the investigation and he will have to testify to all of this. the people who handled the gun before him will have to do the same and a lot coming out about hannah gutierrez reed. the armorer on this set. nicholas cage walked off a set of another western because he was concerned -- he said she fired off guns without calling out she was about to do that. what are your thoughts on all that? >> you know, our industry, the...

Checked the dummies and ensured they were not live rounds. >> we suspect there was other live rounds found on the set. i wont comment further on how they got there. >> reporter: two crew members alleging few tear resident mishandled weapons on a previous film project with nicolas cage. in allegations first reported by the wrap, stu pwrupl baugh saying she just fired off her round. it sounded like she fired at the ground and nick laid into her. she is the most inexperienced armorer i have ever wo...

By the sheriff yesterday, law enforcement is already starting from a baseline of there were mistakes made. to get to the level of criminal negligence, thats another big step. theyre not going to go there until all the facts are back including from quantico. >> are you telling me sets across america that its normal for guns to be pointed at people. thats not what i am reading. >> sometimes there are real guns onset, its more dangerous, its more of a no-no to have any live ammunition onset. movie ...

Charges will be the question of how that live ammunition got on set and got into the gun. now, you mentioned the investigate is focusing on two people now, dave halls, the assistant director, he issued a chilling admission to detectives according to a newly released court documents in which he said that he failed to check the weapon that was use d in that deadly shooting. he told detectives, he said he failed to check the firearm properly, saying he could, quote, only remember seeing three round...

And load it into the firearm once the first ad told us that we were ready to do that. >> assistant director. >> correct. >> so now, we were shooting with you the other day as i said and you emphasized the only two terms that people should be hearing are hot gun and cold gun. what do each of those terms mean? >> so in the motion -- motion-picture industry, we have our own language, if you will. and two of those terms are cold gun and hot gun. a cold gun means that the gun is empty. it cannot fire...

Gun and hot gun. a cold gun means that the gun is empty. it cannot fire. there might be dummies in it. but it cannot go bang. a hot gun means that it is ready to fire with blanks loaded up into the gun, and those callouts happen just before and after each one of the sequences on set. >> so a hot gun blank isnt necessarily dangerous if it is used right but its still a hot gun because something can go bang in the gun. >> that is correct. >> my friend anderson has a couple questions for you also. >...

Directly from my phone on this, im just getting this in -- she checked the dummies and ensured they were not hot rounds. the affiant learned the firearms were taken back and secured inside a safe on a prop truck on set. during lunch she stated the ammo was left on a cart on the set, not secured. gutierrez also advised the ammo was also kept inside the prop truck. theres a search warrant out, by the way, for the prop truck. she stated the firearms were pulled out of the safe and handed to her. sh...

Prop gun killing cinematographer halyna hutchins, then piercing director joel souzas shoulder. >> we believe that we have in our possession the firearm that was fired by mr. baldwin. this is the firearm we believe discharged the bullet. the actual lead projectile that has been fired has been recovered from the shoulder of mr. souza. >> reporter: the sheriff saying investigators seized roughly 500 rounds of ammunition from the set. analysis now underway to determine if more bullets are among the ...