why every right winged talking head was on his ass about it.

That’s the one I can actually answer, lol. I don’t know shit about an armorer’s job on set, but the right wing has had a hardon for Baldwin for years, ever since he mocked their orange lord and savior on Saturday Night Live very effectively, and more than once. Not that anyone’s admitting anything, but given the prosecutor’s own fervent devotion to the orange chancre, political retribution was circulated as her own particular motivation at the time.