He “let go of the hammer on the gun, and the gun goes off” is what happens, you idiot, if you “let go of the hammer” incorrectly.
He must of skipped the day of firearms training where they describes how something goes out of “the dangerous end.” Just another example of an ignorant, blowhard, antigun moron handling a firearm without knowing anything about them.
All we need to know is that he thinks he’s not responsible for the shooting, but anybody else, that ever used a firearm for whatever purpose, should be locked up and have the key thrown away.
But not him . . .
You just described the very reason that the responsibility for weapons protocols on a film set are left to a professional armor who primary mission is to ensure that every weapon on set is certified and verified as a cold gun. Which is the industry term for a triple checked and certified unloaded weapon. Actors are some of the dumbest people on earth they are not qualified nor tasked with weapons protocols. The armor F’d up big time when she handed a loaded weapon to an actor and F’d up again when she then certified that as a cold gun. The improper handling of a historical weapon that lacks basic safety features is a whole separate issue. It could be argued that he lost his grip on the hammer and it slipped due to perspiration or hand oils off his thumb a modern revolver would have gone click and nothing else a historical one with a live firing pin under that hammer goes boom nearly every time. He was being directed in the positioning and pointing of that weapon by the photographer the industry term is angles so it will be hard to prove he intentionally pointed it when he was being instructed and positioned at the time. The liability for a cold weapon is on the armor the actor lacks the qualifications to certify that.
Letting go of a hammer will only discharge very old historical single action revolvers. All modern revolvers and semi automatics have firing pin safety mechanisms designed specifically to prevent this problem. I have two 1865 revolvers both will fire from half cocked if you don’t seat the hammer back on the sear. The 1911 is also.single action and you can drop the hammer from half cock nothing will happen why? Because unless the side safety is down,the rear grip safty is fully depress and the trigger is back the firing pin is out of line with the primer. Same for a Sig P226 take it to just under half cock let the hammer go click nothing. Do that with a pre 1870 revolver and they will.go bang.
The gun in this case is a replica of a 1869s era revolver it comes in two versions one is modern with a transfer bar safety the other is historically accurate version with a always live firing pin I think we just found out what version was on set. If you pull the hammer back on the original and lose your grip before that hammer clicks back and locks on its sear it will fly back.forward with full speed of the spring tension you just pull it too and nearly every time light off the round in the cylinder under it which also would rotate back to it’s original position as the spring unwound there is no back catch paw or rachet on those older guns at half.rock the chamber will index forwards manually but will rotate back if you let the hammer go.