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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The argument is going in circles but some of these analogies are just not on point. I can make up others for the other side.

" I can't go to court and say, "my buddy told me it was unloaded right before I killed that person" and be let off the hook."

The AD wasn't AB's "buddy." It was part of his job to check the gun and he has admitted he didn't do it right.

Say someone went to a firing range for a lesson. He was paying for the lesson. The firing range hired the instructor. The instructor checked the gun and told the student it was empty and they were just going to practice first without using ammunition.  The student pulled the trigger--we don't know if AB did--and the gun was loaded and someone got hurt.

Are you still going to hold the student responsible? [/quote]

Yes. Because rule #1 is that you never point a gun toward a person that you aren’t trying to kill, whether or not you’re planning to pull the trigger. Pointing the gun, and pulling the trigger makes it worse. This is drilled into you during gun safety instruction. Even if you have checked the gun yourself and you think it is unloaded, much less when you’re relying on someone else. There can be a round stuck somewhere you can’t see it, and the consequences of being mistaken are too dire. That why shotguns are carried in a field “broken” so they can’t fire, even when they aren’t loaded.

Film sets are doing something inherently risky when they discharge guns on a film set. That’s why the protocols are *supposed* to be so strict. If it is found that the protocols weren’t followed, that negligence and maybe criminal recklessness. [/quote]

Did AB ever receive instruction from someone who really knew guns? Or just from random props people on movie sets? [/quote]

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