There have been thousands of western movies and tv shows with lots of shooting made without incident. It takes a moron like Alec Baldwin to do something like this. Is it possible he did it on purpose because he hates guns so much?
I have a good copy of Bondarchuk’s movie WAR AND PEACE(1966).
If you look carefully you can see two accidents with canon, one in which a soldier stands too close to the muzzle with fired, he grabs his left ear.
Another when a cavalry man is riding up a redoubt when the canon is fired it blows the sword right out of his hand.
And if you look real close, soldiers way in the background are using Russian bolt action rifles.