I disagree about the age, but I'm coming from a military background where 24yos have significant responsibilities handling weapons and live ammo. She did act irresponsibly but I don't cut any slack due to age and very little due to inexperience. She signed up for the job and gave her word she could do the job. I do have some sympathy towards producers walking over her, if that did happen, and cutting corners. But her primary responsibility is to stop everything and walk off set if needed, if there were serious safety issues with the firearms.
I do think she wasn't well trained and got the job due to family connections. Then we have the producers cutting corners and everything else that's come out afterwards about safety issues. Plus the supposed disagreements on set. I don't know if HGR did or didn't push for more safety measures and training. She said she did, but the woman called last week as a witness said she didn't. I'm inclined to give befit of the doubt to HGR on that issue.
It looks, to me, like Rust wanted a discount armorer and Seth and Thell thought it would be an easy job to put HGR and Seths sister-in-law on to give them on the job training and add to their resume. Then we have everything going on set. I do wonder if HGR talked to her dad about this. Not complaining to daddy so much as calling her mentor and trainer and asking for guidance, or if she tried to go it alone.
As far as where the ammo came from, I haven't made up my mind but I'm leaning towards the live rounds coming from Thell. Either from Thell to HGR or Thell through PDQ to HGR. Based on the pics, PDQ ran a very sloppy shop. But the FBI witness says the live rounds found at PDQ didn't match the live rounds found on set. Even if PDQ was sloppy and mixed rounds, I'd expect the cops to find something at PDQ that matched the live rounds on set. The powder not matching was significant because it shows that the PDQ live rounds and the Rust live rounds came from 2 different manufacturers.
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