Real Bullets Among the Movie Props: New Details of Rust Shooting Death

The Santa Fe County sheriff’s department has collected approximately 500 rounds of what it characterized as “ammunition” from the set of the Western movie Rust, where a prop gun loaded with an apparent real bullet went off in the hand of actor Alec Baldwin, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injuring writer-director Joel Souza. Not all of them have lethal capabilities, but sheriff Adan Mendoza believes some will prove to be real bullets. “That is a mix of blanks, dummy rounds, and what we are suspecting are live rounds,” he said at a press conference Wednesday. Blanks have explosive powder in… Read Full Article