Posted on 10/24/2021 9:13:42 PM PDT by conservative98
“Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people!”
“ How do you fire a gun while pulling it out of a holster?”
By pulling the trigger.
I think Brian Laundrie’s parents are involved.
Am I confused?
>>>>Single action revolver. He either would have been practicing drawing the gun and cocking the hammer or (even worse) he was practicing drawing a gun that was already cocked.<<<
That’s where I come in as well. It’s a SINGLE ACTION REVOLVER! Takes a new step to cock it. WTF, Over???
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Explanation doesn’t make sense. I agree. In any case, he pulled the trigger when he shouldn’t have.
rehearsing a scene in which he draws a gun and points it at the camera lens, (cocks the hammer and pulls the trigger) should evidently be in there somewhere.
Sadly after instances such these the finality of it after fully digested is simply expressed as “I didn’t know it was loaded.” Which might be included in manslaughter charges.
Baldwin might be “Munson’d” after all is said and done.
Didn’t Robert Blake go a similar route?
“when the gun discharged
Well, the newspuppets from The Slimes, Simon Romero and Julia Jacobs, got it into the third person.
Maybe they can try for the fourth or fifth person...”
I just thought of something... Those old western guns, if it was indeed an old western gun was kept with an unloaded cylinder under the hammer at all times.
Was this gun used that day an old single action pistol which should have had an empty chamber underneath the hammer? As was practiced in the day. Hmmmmm.
If you watch just about any firearm video on Youtube, the presenter makes an extreme effort to start off with an explicit check of the gun. It's unloaded. It's verified. I'm showing you. You can see. This is a safe gun.
And that's a video that you might watch in your living room 2 years later.
But on a live set for a major motion picture? Just grab it, shout "cold gun" and it's all good bro.
They called it a misfire. That's not what a misfire is, though.
This adds to my earlier speculation, they were setting up to use dummy rounds, not blanks.
Next, I think there was a worn sear.
With a worn sear, he wouldn’t have to pull the trigger, just cock the hammer.
If blanks were involved, the gun would not have been pointed at the camera. That’s why I think they were dummy rounds, which are used when the camera looks at the front of the gun.
Also dummy rounds are often indistinguishable from live rounds, you couldn’t tell with a visual inspection. They was you test dummy rounds is you point the gun in a safe direction at the ground, and pull the trigger as many times as there are cylinders.
A screen is used for blanks.
Two assumptions I see over and over in these posts I find irritating, that they were intending to use blanks, and that Baldwin pulled the trigger.
Neither can be assumed based on what little we know, instead there are contra-indications.
Maybe it’s just training but if someone hands me a gun and tells me it’s not loaded I’m going to make sure of it myself.
One is beginning to suspect that the 24yo armorer MIGHT have been conducting recreational shooting for the cool kids, thus the presence of real ammunition on the set.
Toss in a mixup and the stage is set for tragedy. She was someone's mom and wife. We know people were quitting the project because of poor gun safety.
One would think that the investigators will also ask... anyone drinking or smoking dope around firearms?
The people who quit will tell all.
There's something wrong here.
I'm having trouble getting my head around "accident".
I also looked back into Baldwin's history. Sounds like he's handled plenty of guns before.
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