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Alec Baldwin's claim he didn't pull trigger on 'Rust' questioned by sheriff: 'Guns don't just go off'
Fox News ^ | December 2, 2021 | Lauryn Overhultz

Posted on 12/02/2021 4:48:57 AM PST by conservative98

The Santa Fe Sheriff's Department said it is awaiting results from the FBI which would shed light on how the gun could have been fired, whether that was just pulling back the hammer – which hits the firing pin – just pulling the trigger or both.

"Guns don't just go off," Sheriff Adan Mendoza told Fox News Digital. "So whatever needs to happen to manipulate the firearm, he did that and it was in his hands."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: adanmendoza; alecbaldwin; baldwin; banglist; georgestephanopoulos; guns; halynahutchins; hollywood; joelsouza; rust
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1 posted on 12/02/2021 4:48:57 AM PST by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Oh boy.
2 posted on 12/02/2021 4:49:13 AM PST by conservative98
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“We had the gun the whole time before that and nothing happened, and I wasn’t in there, and they weren’t even supposed to be pulling the hammer back,” Gutierrez Reed was quoted saying in the search warrant.


3 posted on 12/02/2021 4:51:38 AM PST by conservative98
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Didn’t hear his statement but I heard about it. Not sure where he and his lawyers are trying to go with this but it isn’t going to work. Several things have to take place before a firearm like he had can be discharged, and they have to be done by the person holding the firearm.


4 posted on 12/02/2021 4:54:01 AM PST by Dusty Road (")
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To: conservative98

Oh goodness 🙄


5 posted on 12/02/2021 4:54:16 AM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: conservative98

What’s the trigger pull weight on that particular firearm, I wonder...


6 posted on 12/02/2021 4:55:11 AM PST by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: conservative98

Folks would not buy guns that randomly fired while in your holster or your pocket


7 posted on 12/02/2021 4:56:24 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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8 posted on 12/02/2021 4:57:58 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Dusty Road

.....because liberals believe bum dialing a phone is the same as a gun firing on its own....


9 posted on 12/02/2021 4:58:06 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: conservative98

I thought B.Husseins ego was humongous but this guy takes the cake. The smoke hasn’t even cleared and already he is doing a public relations interview?? I like the question Stephanopoulos asks him “Is this the worst thing that ever happened to you?” What? To HIM?? What about the woman he killed? And then he tries to not take responsibility? The gun shot itself?? The gun pointed itself at her and shot itself? Is this guy for real?


10 posted on 12/02/2021 5:01:27 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: conservative98

He can claim it all he wants but it was drawn, in his hand, hammer pulled back manually by his thumb, pointed at a person and the trigger tripped by his finger.

The fact it was an old single action Colt and not a double action modern weapon makes his statement even that much more asinine.

This is nothing but a CYA move his lawyers have told him to say simply because there might be a weak minded jurist who is looking for an excuse, any excuse, to pardon him. After all he hates Trump so that should be an excuse to pardon him for some, right?


11 posted on 12/02/2021 5:05:39 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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There is one way that a Colt SAA can go off without the hammer being cocked or the trigger being pulled.

The design if the SAA is such that an uncocked hammer rests directly on the firing pin which is in contact with a primer in the chamber.

If you drop the pistol such that the back of the hammer hits the ground, or give the back of the hammer a sharp blow, it will go off.

This is why it was standard practice to carry only five rounds in a SAA, and have the hammer down on an empty chamber.

Unless Baldwin dropped the pistol, or happened to give a very sharp rap to the back of an uncocked hammer, the gun did not go off by itself.


12 posted on 12/02/2021 5:16:19 AM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Not one iota of remorse.


13 posted on 12/02/2021 5:16:38 AM PST by usual suspect
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

His lawyers can’t shut him up.


14 posted on 12/02/2021 5:19:27 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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If I were Ms Hutchins widower, raising an 8 yo son who has been deprived of his mother by a person who is doing high profile interviews spouting garbage, trying to cover his own ass .... this would 100% guarantee I’d be suing his @ss off with the goal of forcing him to live in a pup tent the rest of his life.

From what I understand, the husband (a very good lawyer in his own right) has hired a very ‘serious’ lawyer .... they are in the process of gathering facts & “investigating” for themselves what happened. When the lawsuit drops, Alec is going to be in a world of hurt and interviews with the likes of Steffy won’t be able to pull him out of the fire. Alec is absolute vermin .... he should keep his mouth shut, stay out of public, let his lawyers handle it, and be very sensitive to and respectful of the woman he killed and her family - but that’s just ‘not him’. His wife is a big mouth piece of work, too.


15 posted on 12/02/2021 5:21:50 AM PST by Qiviut ("Don't let your children die on the hill you refuse to fight on.")
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To: conservative98

perhaps he pulled the hammer back and it slipped.

i think he was messing around and pulled the trigger.

then his mind concocts this magic deadly gun.


16 posted on 12/02/2021 5:23:42 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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You’d think that if he was doing a Quickdraw McGraw with it and slightly pulled the hammer back but not the trigger, he’d have shot his own foot, instead of the person he aimed the gun at

Doesn’t appear that he’ll face any criminal conviction, but the civil suits don’t need preponderance of evidence to hit him hard in the wallet

He’s trying to absolve himself in the court of public opinion


17 posted on 12/02/2021 5:25:30 AM PST by digger48
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To: conservative98

Clintonesque word parsing. He “squeezed” the trigger.


18 posted on 12/02/2021 5:38:33 AM PST by Old Yeller (You can’t obey your way out of tyranny.)
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To: conservative98

He would have had to first pull the hammer back before the gun could “just go off”.

His lie is obvious.


19 posted on 12/02/2021 5:39:42 AM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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"No, no, no, no, I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger. Never."

Can he really be that stupid? The only reason for pointing a gun at someone is to pull the trigger.
20 posted on 12/02/2021 5:44:11 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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