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Baldwin charges spur debate on responsibility for guns on set

American actor Alec Baldwin appears in court in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, the United States, on Jan 23, 2019. (Photo: Reuters)

The prosecutors in New Mexico who made the decision to charge actor Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the “Rust” movie set said Thursday that he bore responsibility for ensuring that the gun he was handed did not contain live rounds.

“He doesn’t actually have to touch each projectile, each piece of ammunition,” Mary Carmack-Altwies, the district attorney in Santa Fe County, said in an interview after the decision to charge him in the death of the cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, was announced. “He…

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