‘I Have Been the Scapegoat’

Four years after the fatal shooting on the set of “Rust,” the man who supplied prop guns and blanks to the production has sued Alec Baldwin in a bid to clear his name.

Seth Kenney, the owner of PDQ Arm & Prop, filed the 35-page complaint last week, alleging that his reputation has been destroyed in the wake of the accidental death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

In an interview with Variety, Kenney said he has been unable to find work in the film industry since then.

“It’s been devastating,” he said. “It’s not a matter of saving face. There’s nothing left to lose. This whole thing has been shit and I have been the scapegoat.”

Kenney supplied the Colt .45 revolver that Baldwin was holding when the fatal shot was fired on Oct. 21, 2021. The film’s armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed, served 14 months for involuntary manslaughter for loading a live bullet into the gun. Baldwin was put on trial last summer, but the case was thrown out midway through due to withheld evidence.

Investigators never determined how the armorer’s supply of dummy rounds became contaminated with live bullets — a major safety breach. Kenney, who served as a key prosecution witness at both trials, has adamantly denied that he was to blame, saying he had meticulously “rattle tested” each dummy to ensure that it was inert.

But he has been unable to escape a cloud of suspicion. In his lawsuit, Kenney accuses Baldwin and others of conspiring with “cutthroat industry Hollywood ‘fixers’ and media” to put the blame on him. As a result of a “national propaganda campaign,” Kenney says he has suffered personal humiliation, mental anguish, and “ruinous financial losses.”

In the interview, Kenney said the “last straw” came in January, when Baldwin filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against New Mexico officials. In the complaint, Baldwin’s lawyers suggested that Kenney had inadvertently commingled live…