Posted on 12/02/2021 2:33:23 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Waiting for Trump to be on SNL doing a skit of Arec holding a gun. :O) Oops.
Alec is confused, since it takes two actions (cock hammer. pull trigger) on a single action revolver, and one action (pull trigger) on a double action revolver, that someone handed him a no action revolver. (Fires itself.)
Put Alec Baldwin under oath and have him repeat his denial of shooting Halyna Hutchins and Joel Souza.
As always with Narcissistic Personalities, Alec must be the victim. He has no empathy. None for the woman he killed, the child without a mother or the director he shot. Narcissists are not capable of feeling empathy for others, so they fake it. His only true emotion of grief is for himself. Everything else is glycerin tears and a failed PR campaign. I’d fire his PR firm for this idiotically stupid, “The GUN DID IT” campaign.
Good to know— fanning was one way for rapid fire in close quarters back in those days. And the function of the hammer being able to fire the gun with the shorter “throw” from half cocked position fanned from resting position on the firing pin was part of the appeal of the Colt.
The FBI has no business on this case.
It’s a local jurisdiction matter. It’s not a federal firearms
violation.
FUBAR on deck...
correct.
:)
Are you suggesting Baldwin “dropped” the pistol into his soft, girly hand and that’s how it magically fired?
It has been widely reported the pistol was a “single action” revolver.
Here’s your education: Single action pistols are one trigger pull, one round goes off. By definition they can’t be “cocked” [hammer pulled back]. Double action can be fired cocked or uncocked [in closed position like a single action]. Cocking the pistol extends the the spring that pulls the hammer down onto the cartridge and at the same time puts the trigger into a ready fire position [trigger clicks into ready position 1/2 way back]. But you still have to pull the trigger to fire - usually with 3-6 lbs of force.
Pulling the trigger without cocking the hammer first, as is required for every single action revolver like Baldwin used and uncocked double action pistols, takes 2-3x’s the force as a ‘cocked’ double action pistol, depending on model, lubrication, etc. So 6-12 lbs of force against the trigger is required to fire a single action pistol.
If you think that’s not much, try to curl a 5 lb. weight with your index finger only.
So there is no physical way for a single action pistol to be fired while holding it in your hands without pulling the trigger with unmistakable force. “Unmistakable” as in can’t be done unknowingly, or by brushing it against your leg, or by ‘accidently’ resting your finger on the trigger.
If its an antique and was double action, then there’s metal wearing possibilities if cocked and slipped. But that’s not the case here.
If there’s a defect claim, I would find that possibility equally unlikely as it was part of a collection routinely used in movie production. It would’ve been discovered upon inspection or prior use. ‘From the factory’ defects are very, very rare bc firearm manufacturers have strict civil liability for injuries/death involving inherently dangerous objects [like guns, explosives, acids, etc]. And I can’t imagine ANY KIND of defect that would discharge a round by holding a single action in your hands without some intentional force on the trigger.
Completely bewildering why a Sheriff needs the FBI to test the pistol. These are not complex machines.
Baldwin’s story is not possible in the physical world. But the lefties don’t live here, so.....
Exactly. Two shots or one ?
I think you got single action and double action confused.
Single actions may work that way in LA, but not in the rest of the world. You have to cock the hammer and then pull the trigger on a SA.
In LA, everyone uses a Glock nine and holds it sideways. What do they know from revolvers?
(Just kidding, LA folks. Don’t get mad.)
The moron pulled the trigger...revolvers don’t “magically” fire themselves.
Only room for one Sheriff in this town, Baldwin vs. this Sheriff in a duel next?
Money on this Sheriff.
The gun in question was a modern manufacture Pietta Model 1873. It is a transfer bar gun, where the hammer cannot strike the firing pin *unless* the trigger is pulled. You can take a sledge to the back of the hammer, break the lockwork enough to make it go forward - and it still won’t fire unless the trigger is depressed.
The hammer and firing pin are separate on this design.
He didn’t post truth. He is in error about the weapon.
Thanks for the detailed clarification.
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