It turns out Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was not a qualified "armorer" - in fact, she doesn't appear qualified to be handling firearms at all much less being in charge of managing firearm safety on an entire movie set. She got the job because of her father, an alleged expert gunsmith. She admits to having issues loading firearms (with blanks) confidently, and was also seen breaking safety rules and regs on a previous movie set. (Handing a firearm improperly to a minor child on set.)

Nothing was done, and now someone is dead.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10125505/Filming-halted-Alec-Baldwin-Rust-movie-inexperienced-24-year-old-gave-gun-child-set.html#comments

I think this young lady should have stuck to selfies and her social media image.

Being in charge of firearm safety on something as busy as a movie set requires proper training, experience and a track record of accountability and safety. This person has none of those things.

In her statements from her lawyers, all we get is a litany of excuses how this incident was everybody else's fault except for hers. And I'm left here scratching my head.

https://www.tmz.com/2021/10/29/rust-armorer-hannah-gutierrez-reed-lawyer-live-rounds-fatal-shooting/

These excuses ironically point towards what is also lacking here: a sense of personal responsibility.

1. She claims she had two positions and was over-stretched.
2. She claims her requests for "additional training" were ignored.
3. She claims she brought up safety issues and was ignored.
4. She claims guns were locked up, yet others were taking them out for target practice.
5. She points the finger at every other person on set besides herself.

Quite interesting "defense" - how she admits to KNOWING things were unsafe on set yet she claims her only responsibility was perhaps mentioning to one or two disinterested parties. If things were indeed that dangerous, and her authority as a high-ranking safety official in a very important role was not being acknowledged, who else did she report it to? Only her boss? Were there not other places/agencies to report to? The film-makers association? The union? Law enforcement? She had ALL KINDS of other ways she could have made the safety problems known. Yet, for her own self interests, she continued working in an unsafe environment (she herself was largely responsible for creating). There were TWO courses of action here:

a) Report it further, to more and different people.

b) Failing a response in (a), STEP DOWN and cite reasons why

And again, how is it that she could be the LAST person on the list of those responsible for safety while holding the title of "Armorer"? She was not a prop assistant. She was not a stage hand. She was the ARMORER, allegedly.

Myself, after reading about her past, I wouldn't hire this young lady to polish my firearms, let alone be responsible for people's safety regarding firearms.

"Girl Power" has cost someone their life and now the lady's family (and Mr. Baldwin) has to suffer the trauma from this.

Shame on the gyno-powers at work that would hand jobs to people not qualified to them based on who they know or what their gender is.

It's fine feminists want women to get into positions based on their gender. But perhaps when these are highly safety sensitive positions we should rethink "girl power" and hire people actually qualified to keep people safe - and alive.

What's sick is the comments which defend this "poor girl" and insist it's someone else's responsibility beyond the armorer's to ensure firearm safety on set.

I guess when you have an unqualified girl in a critical safety role, safety has to fall on someone else's shoulders. Or, people just get killed. And this time, that's exactly what happened.

Shame on you fake armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed. You knew you were over your head and decided to roll with it and now someone is dead.

And shame on the "girl power" idiots who thought this was a good idea. You should all be sharing a jail cell with this selfie-queen.