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Off that morning citing gun safety. >> in fact, they had been doing extremely long days. >> apologize for interrupting. i was about to ask you about that the assistant director. you mentioned the a.d., the armorer, the sequence of events of handling the weapon and when about the prop master or is that interchangeable with the armorer because it seemed to be a lot of roles, different people who might have their hands on the weapon and then we still don't know if this was a live round. what was in this gun? >> well, the chain -- the chain of command is such that the prop master is the head of th...

An assistant director on the film set of "Rust" was the subject of complaints over safety and his behavior ...

A stunt coordinator and theatrical firearms safety expert. so good to see you, and, of course, there are things i want to ask you that relate to things that we don't know, but you can help us on a movie set, some of the protocols that would be met, some of the things that could be, you know, replaced i guess with, you know, with other concerns. every movie production is different. so give us an idea. when it comes down to the handling of a prop such as a gun, now we're learning that the assistant director may have been the one to hand alec baldwin the -- the prop is this unusual? is it usually...

Responsible for getting the guns, getting the ammunition, loading them properly, unloading them properly. storing them safely. so, you know, if the buck has to stop somewhere, it's got to be with the prop master or the weapons master on the job, the a.d. often functions as a backup layer of safety so the prop master will say, look, here's the gun. you can see there's nothing in it. you can see that this is a blank. can you tell that because if it were live ammo it would look like this. that's a bullet on there. there's no bullet here. we're going to go ahead and put this in here, we're going t...

The team told her that it was a non-negotiable on housing, and the concern about housing was that the crew members were being housed in albuquerque 50 miles away from the set. that meant very long hours, a lot of drive time, a lot of safety concerns. fred? >> all right. lucy kafanov, thank you so much. still so many questions. i want to bring in dutch mashic and ask him a few questions. he's the former president of the former entertainment union local 44 and prop master who has worked in the film and television industry for decades. he's currently working on the hbo sires "euphoria" and hbo is...