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Union: Prop Gun Fired By Alec Baldwin Contained Live Bullet Union: Prop Gun Fired By Alec Baldwin Contained Live Bullet
Union: Prop Gun Fired By Alec Baldwin Contained Live Bullet UPDATE: The prop gun fired by Alec Baldwin that killed a cinematographer and wounded the director on the set of his latest film in New Mexico contained a "live single round," the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees told its members in an email. The gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza in an "accidental discharge" on Thursday was among props supplied for the film “Rust” not by IATSE Local 44 members but a local crew, Secretary-Treasurer Anthony Pawluc added. “A live single round was accidentally fired on set by the principal actor,…