Presently, there's an old rendition of the improvement regulation that was active at the hour of the "Rust" shooting, yet that regulation expects that a gun be "displayed," and that term is characterized as follows ... "showing or spreading the word about a gun for someone else ... with plan to scare or harm an individual." Under any situation, Baldwin had no expectation to harm.

Assuming the appointed authority tosses out the guns improvement charge, it fundamentally changes the discipline. He would just have to carry out upwards of year and a half in jail, and the appointed authority could give probation.