NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
So the gun had a mind of its own. Riiiight.
He pulled the trigger before he cocked the gun. When he cocked the hammer he thought it would be held by the sear. Let go of the hammer and the gun fires.
Back in the day, pistoleros would modify Colt SAA’s by tying back the trigger and reshaping the hammer to speed firing this way. It was called a slip hammer gun. Judge Martin, a friend of Elmer Keith did this.
Between Baldwin & the FBI it’s a tossup who is more likely to be lying.
If single action, didn’t he have to cock the hammer?
So many on here thought he would get off scot free. And in California, where Hollywood $ is king, he would. God bless New Mexico, where no man is above the law.
My grandfather was an avid hunter and he taught my mother basic gun safety rules such as 1) the gun is always loaded and 2) never point a gun at something or someone you don’t intend to shoot. If a small child can understand that a gun is not a toy but a weapon to be handled with care then a grown man can and should be held responsible for his criminal negligence.
If no accountability somewhere, then would be a means to actually set up and carry out an undercover murder.
Colombo type episode.
Some of the “news” reports published almost seemed like they must have let Alex do the editing, they were kind of screwy; “Baldwin was holding the gun that went off” or some similar weasel wording, as if he were merely a spectator.
I saw one interview where Baldwin said he pulled the hammer back, but did not release it.
I assume the only evidence is a hammer dent on the shell casing.
The most important questions are still unanswered.
Who brought real bullets to a film set, and who loaded the gun?
Guns don’t kill people. Alec Baldwin kills people.
Baldwin is a liar and a murderer.
Alec lied, people died!
A blank looks like this:
They have pinched off top like a shotgun shell.