Rogerborg

It's a tough one. It certainly wasn't intentional, and there shouldn't have been a live round anywhere on set. However, actors are not a special category of human being, and they have culpability for their own actions. "Just following orders" is not a defence, and ignorance shouldn't be either. How long does it take to show-and-tell basic gun safety, and the difference between an inert dummy round, and (a picture of) a live round? It could be done while they're in make-up. It certainly should be. If he knows nothing about guns, then he's in a poor position to be making pronouncements about them. And if he's so anti-gun that he refused to learn the basics, then should have refused to use one. It's hard not to conclude that he's a virtue signaller who dropped his principles at the first sniff of a pay cheque. It's an 1880s Western, so it would have been a revolver. It seems to have been an actual live round. It is unfathomable why there would be one anywhere on set, and the armourer is primarily to blame for that. "The person in charge of overseeing the gun props, known as the armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, could not be reached for comment. The 24-year-old is the daughter of veteran armorer Thell Reed" And a big round of applause for nepotism. Wamxn's lib, take a bow too. Seems that it was a live round that went right through Ms Hutchins, and into the man standing behind her. From the LA times article above, it seems that he wasn't even supposed to be firing it, it was just a draw scene. And they'd already had multiple NDs from their prop live guns, although how you'd cause a revolver to fire without pulling the trigger escapes me. To be as charitable as I can to Baldwin, if the hammer had somehow become cocked (they'd already filmed the scene once), and the trigger was defective (see previous NDs), it might have gone off without being pulled. I do feel considerable sympathy for him, and I'd primarily blame the armourer. It won't have been in any way intentional, and he is going to have to live with the knowledge that he could have prevented it by checking those rounds. But he could have checked those rounds, and I believe that he should have checked those rounds.

I understand that old old squaddie boots were awful, but the two pairs of black assault boots with GoreTex lining that I've bought in the past decade have been just fine. Granted, "grade 1" is always a gamble but I've been lucky enough to get boots with almost unworn soles.

I fully agree that airsoft sites should only have airsoft toys at them. Even if you know what you've brought, the skip licker who thinks it's funny to pick it up and "pew" it at someone won't. I include metal pellet air guns in that, I've seen folk shooting them on airsoft ranges. In this case it seems like actual live rounds were loaded (why were there even any on site?) and they'd already had this happen on set, to big shrugs. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2021-10-22/alec-baldwin-rust-camera-crew-walked-off-set Somebody should be going to jail for that, either the armourer, the AD who said "cold gun", or Baldwin. I hope we'd agree with the basic principle that you should always assume that a gun (airsoft or otherwise) is loaded until you've personally verified otherwise. Even - and especially - if you're an anti-gun activist like Baldwin. That wasn't an "accident", it was negligence.

It also implies a guilty mind as you'd only do it if you know you're up to something sneaky. Not an issue in this case though, there's no receiver/frame.

I feel compelled to point out that you can stretch leather slightly by soaking and heating it, but you need a form (wooden last or adjustable stretcher) and it's a last resort with boots that you really need to make fit so that the prince will marry you, it's not anything you'd want to attempt by choice.

I agree. The State might not, but what do they know?

I have to agree. If it was "fully upgraded" then I'm not sure what you expect to happen differently next time. It's be all the same parts internally, and it's not like the shell makes much of a difference. I do have to wonder, are the results that you want based on watching YouTube sniper channels?

Nope. Only for a thing that "has an appearance that is so realistic as to make it indistinguishable, for all practical purposes, from a real firearm". Components short of that are just fine.

Perhaps they heard that people were having fun there, and it hurt them in the place where human would have a soul?

I was thinking of that fact that airsoft involves a fair bit of crouching and wriggling through damp shrubbery that comes a lot higher than knee height, especially when that knee is on the ground. It just seems curious to use half a solution rather than a full one.

But will it reach the balls of my feet before the balls of my balls?

Hmm, I've never tried gaiters. I'm struggling to see the point, as they seem like a fussy way to wear half of a pair of waterproof over-trousers, that will leave you getting damp from the knees up. What am I missing?

If we're talking looking down the barrel, I'd put "shotgun" right up there. And curiously they remain shall-issue in the UK, a situation which surely can't last forever.

I'm more curious about what he's expecting to see in there than concerned about the consequences.

Sorry to hear that, and I think that was the right response. I honestly don't care that much what site rules are, so long as whatever rules they do have are enforced from the top down, without exceptions. As soon as one rule doesn't matter, none of them do. See the successes of zero tolerance policing, as grudgingly admitted by this Marxist cope.

Eh. You can still score a very occasional real bargain, but mostly by buying winter gear in spring, and summer gear in autumn. I did once bag a pair of new and apparently genuine GoreTextm lined motorcycle gloves for the princely sum of £23.98, and they were great until I managed to drop them while walking to my bike, turned around 30 seconds later when I realised, and some Weegie ned had already had them away.

If headshots didn't count at a site, folk would just stick their mask and the muzzle of an HPA drum fed pistol above a barrel and play in God Mode. Gun hits seem to be about an even split between: ignore; takes the gun out of commission; counts as a kill. See rant upthread, site marshals don't always know the site rules. I like to play a little sub-game of test quizzing marshals by asking them about gun hits, and seeing how many different answers I get over the course of a day. Oh, marshals who misapply or don't apply site rules, or who prefer to spend the day chatting or on Facebook: please, no. I very much appreciate good marshalling, especially as it's often done for peanuts or less. But a disinterested or conflict-shy marshal is just hoarding a hi-vis from someone who could do a better job of it.

The known-brand stuff they sell will be no worse than the same items sold anywhere else, but the problem is that they also sell some plastic gearboxed plinker trash that will be lucky to survive the shipping process, or wacky brands that even if they work out of the box are likely to take proprietary parts. I've bought from BBguns4less before, but when I knew exactly what I wanted, and why, and had checked that I was making a small saving. But for someone who doesn't know where to buy or why, the answer isn't likely to be found on sites that flog a lot of "Professional Grade Airsoft Gun in ORANGE!"

Predators only evolve when their prey forces them too. He's identified a community based on trust, and is ruthlessly farming it.

Yup. Base layers, I go either synthetic, or merino wool. Merino is great stuff, it's soft, wicks sweat, insulates, it's warm even when wet. Sheep don't grow cotton fleeces. Yup, you can find surplus gear (mis)listed as goretex, or under the generic term MVP (Moisture Vapour Permeable). I've just had cause to test a pair of surplus MVP over-trousers by cycling in torrential rain, and they did a decent job for much less than the cost of GoreTextm branded civvy stuff, and without the sweatiness of my previous rubberised vinyl trousers. I'm currently watching some MVP jackets/liners on eBay since the buy-it-nows tend to be £30+ upwards. In the meantime, I agree that cheap ponchos do a decent job, although they will leak and seep around the gaps once you start moving. Dubbin or copious globs of polish on your boots, or pick up some waterproof socks aka boot liners. Sealskinz or surplus both work. I'm always sceptical about waterproof gloves, as it's almost impossible to get all the seams full sealed. At that price though, they're worth a punt.

Counterpoint, if I won a free game day for every time a brief went "So... reds will be... no, blues... wait, who started in the Killhouse last game? OK, reds in the Killhouse, we're doing fallback. What? We just did that? Are you sure?" then I'd never have paid for a day's airsoft after the first.

I reckon so. Sad times, we're always tenants of last resort. It's a brave person who'd sink time and money into developing an airsoft site.

When even Nuprol came up with a new sub-brand so as not to sully their, er... reputation, that was a bad sign.

I'm a fan of putting them on a big sign and saying "Read that". That removes any excuses for not knowing, both on the day, and if legal push comes to shove. After all, how would you prove what you actually said in a briefing?

Smoking weed, whatevs. My main concern there would be them taking a whatevs attitude to chrono, hit taking and such. Alcohol - or doing lines off of their dashboard, since we're imagining heinous site sins - I'd be more likely run and cry to the site, because I agree that the consequences are potentially worse. I stress more likely, but I'd have a good think about it first, based on what I knew about the site. I'd be willing to bet that far too many site runners would tut then do nothing, say "Well, I didn't see it", or outright resent being asked to walk their talk.