‘Rust’ Armorer was Stretched Thin, Tried to Ensure Gun Safety with Baldwin

There’s been plenty of blame positioned on the armorer on the set of “Rust” — by each the general public and regulation enforcement — however her legal professional says she did the whole lot in her energy to make sure everybody engaged on the mission was protected.

We had Jason Bowles, the legal professional for Hannah Gutierrez Reed on TMZ Live Friday who talked at size about his consumer’s case … and shared what he believes have been among the failures that led to the dying of Halyna Hutchins.

Bowles says Hannah requested assistant director, Dave Halls, to let her know when Alec Baldwin was going to deal with the gun that fired the deadly shot so she might examine it and provides Baldwin correct instruction on the best way to deal with the weapon.

Bowles says Halls by no means gave Hannah a heads up, merely handing the gun over to Alec with out following any type of security process.

What’s extra — Bowles claims Hannah was stretched very skinny on set — taking on each the duties as armorer and dealing with props.

Bowles tells us at one level, Hannah despatched an e-mail to manufacturing letting them know she wanted to focus extra of her time on the armorer duties … a request he says was denied.