You can youtube single action going off half cocked. It’s a common and known issue with those types of old guns. Any competent attorney is going to load blanks in that very gun in the court room pull the hammer back to half.cock and let it go. When it goes bang without his finger anywhere near that trigger he will have demonstrated what weapons competent people have known for nearly 140 years that single action revolvers are dangerous when the hammer is not seated on one of two sears. This issue cause a complete redesign of the firing mechanisms that all modern revolvers now use. It won’t be luck it will be sound science and legal practice to designate what has been known for so long.
I can’t say this clearly enough; Baldwin shot and killed that woman. He just admitted as much.
Don’t all firearms with an exposed hammer have this problem? Specifically if the safety is off. 1911’s, lever actions, walthers .... They all can be de-cocked and if your thumb slips while doing it “bam!” .? Newer newer guns have a de -cock switch That blocks the primer.