There's an INSANE new twist with the Alec Baldwin 'COLD GUN!' shooting and it involves COVID-19

Greg P. | 2:50 PM on October 26, 2021

New reporting from Deadline on an affidavit submitted as part of the investigation into the shooting of a crewmember by Alec Baldwin on the set of “Rust” in New Mexico last week says the way weapons were handled on set was altered to comply with COVID-19 protocols:

Info posted via @DEADLINE from a #RustMovie investigation affidavit: the way the production crew handled weapons was altered for #Covid protocol. It's hard to overstate how insane that is…

CC @AdamBaldwin pic.twitter.com/EJR5mnMcvt

— Barry Gadbois (@BarryGadbois) October 26, 2021

Actor and Twitchy favorite Adam Baldwin talked about this possibility yesterday:

Whoa. This is what @AdamBaldwin talked about yesterday —> https://t.co/ANvWOikiKp https://t.co/oEMQkYF1vX

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 26, 2021

Here’s what he tweeted on Monday:

Did COVID protocols that segregate crews into A,B & C groups put the armorer in Group B and therefore required to socially distance from close contact with the A team (e.g., principle actor/producer, director, cinamatographer, 1stAD)?

— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) October 25, 2021

Just, wow:

Goes to the theory that the armorer wasn’t on the production’s COVID “A-Team” and, because this was the first shot after lunch… etc. etc.https://t.co/gve2pPrwnr

— Adam Baldwin (@AdamBaldwin) October 26, 2021

Adam also added that the industry hasn’t had an incident like this in 30 years:

So how bad does a production have to screw up in order to get a live firearm on set and in the hands of an actor, and for that actor to then actually point it at someone and pull the trigger?

— Inconspicuous Rex (@CrankyTRex) October 26, 2021