An actor is not an expert on guns or ammo. It is not the actor’s job to ensure a gun is safe to use or has blanks. That’s why they have an Armorer & a Safety Coordinator. The only requirement is that the gun being fired is a safe distance from anyone, which is recommended as being 6 feet.

Halyna Hutchins stood only 2 feet away from Baldwin (within the range of injury even from a blank) & was instructing him on how to fire the weapon and where to point it when it accidentally discharged according to Baldwin. She should have known better and would have if safety meetings had been held on a regular basis to pound home the danegers of prop weapons.

Baldwin’s claim of an accidental misfire by the gun on its own is corroborated by evidence that on at least 2 occasions just days prior, weapons had accidentally discharged on set, probably due to faulty triggers or hammers, which should have been caught & corrected by the Armorer (Gutierrez-Reed) & mainly the Safety Coordinator (Dave Halls) & especially the Line Producer (Gabrielle Pickle), who’s mainly in charge of production, and there should have been plenty of safety meetings telling people not to point at anything you don’t want to shoot & to stand a minimum of 6 ft away from the gun, and to mainly ensure all rounds on set are blanks, which can be done by experts like Halls & Gutierrez-Reed

However, Ms Gutierrez-Reed wasn’t even the Armorer on the day the incident happened. She had been transferred strictly to Props & was told not to conduct anymore training or safety meetings or act as Armorer by Gabrielle Pickle, the Line Producer.

Once you read the report which you can find online by the NM State OSHB (the state’s equivalent to OSHA), you may determine that Gabrielle Pickle, who was in charge for the most part & ignored many safety concerns according to the report, and the Safety Coordinator of the film, Dave Halls, were responsible for her death, as Halls is the one who loaded the live rounds in the gun & also handed the gun to Baldwin, not Gutierrez-Reed.  Why they haven’t been charged is unusual in my opinion. You can find this report online. Halls was involved in other gun safety incidents on other films.