Gun and ammunition evidence in focus as Alec Baldwin trial starts second day

Alec Baldwin sits in court (Ramsay de Give/Pool Photo via AP)

Prosecutors sought to cast Alec Baldwin as someone who flouts rules and has little regard for safety at the first day of his New Mexico trial in the shooting of a cinematographer.

Special prosecutor Erlinda Ocampo Johnson repeatedly referred to Baldwin playing “make-believe” with a revolver on the set of the film Rust, and said it led to very real danger and the death of Halyna Hutchins, whom she called “a vibrant 42-year-old rising star”.