The assistant director who allegedly handed actor Alec Baldwin a loaded firearm on the set of the movie Rust last week had allowed unsafe working conditions related to firearms on at least one previous set, a prop maker has alleged.

Dave Halls did not hold safety meetings and consistently failed to announce the presence of a firearm on set as part of protocol while working on Hulus Into the Dark series in 2019, prop maker and pyrotechnical Maggie Goll, who worked with Halls on the set, told CNN and NBC News .

There is absolutely no reason that gun safety should be ignored on set, even when it is a non-firing prop firearm, Goll told NBC. The only reason the crew was made aware of a weapons presence was because the assistant prop master demanded Dave acknowledge and announce the situation each day.