On 01 Dec 2021, "max headroom" <
maximus...@gmx.com> posted some
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> In news:so9dru$i44$
1...@gioia.aioe.org, Baxter
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bax02_s...@baxcode.com> typed:>
>> Klaus Schadenfreude <
klaus.schadenfreude.entfernen.@gmail.com>
wrote in
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news:5dlfqghgv5hni8p4p...@4ax.com:
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>>>
https://people.com/movies/alec-baldwin-says-he-didnt-pull-
trigger-first-sit-down-interview-since-rust-shooting/
>
>>> Alec Baldwin Says He 'Didn't Pull the Trigger' in First Sit-Down
>>> Interview Since Rust Shooting
>
>>> When asked if he pulled the trigger on the gun that killed
Hutchins,
>>> the cinematographer who worked on Rust, Baldwin said, "The
trigger
>>> wasn't pulled. I didn't pull the trigger. I would never point a
gun at
>>> someone and pull the trigger on them, never."
>
>>> The preview didn't include Baldwin's explanation as to how the
shot
>>> was fired from the gun.
>
>>> Fuck, even Rudy could figure out Baldwin pulled the fucking
trigger.
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>> ==============
>
>> Older single actions, with out a transfer bar safety, can go off
without
>> cocking the hammer and pulling the trigger, IF the hammer is
down,
>> resting on a live round, and IF the gun is dropped, or something
strikes
>> the hammer. That's why such guns are carried with the hammer down
on an
>> empty chamber. I have seen no reporting that the gun was dropped,
or that
>> something hit the hammer when it was down.
>
>> =============
>> In the 80s I had a room mate who was really into guns.
>
>> He was a journeyman machinist and fancied himself to be a
gunsmith. He
>> was not. He owned a Smith & Wesson .357 magnum. He did some work
on the
>> trigger mechanism to make it a lighter trigger pull. One time he
had the
>> gun cocked and laid it on the table for a second because he
needed two
>> hands to do something else. So we have a loaded gun cocked and
sitting
>> there with no one near it. It went off. All by itself, no one was
near
>> it, no one pulled the trigger It can happen.
>
>> The gun Baldwin was handling needs to be examined for modified or
worn
>> parts. I have read that it was a genuine antique from the period
being
>> depicted. The circumstances I described above show that a cocked
gun can
>> discharge with no one pulling the trigger.
>
> Were that all true, and the crew's armorer passed a defective
weapon, the gun
> did not point itself at humans.
In Baxter World, anything is possible. Water is never wet, the sky
is always turd brown, and pigeons fly around shooting at people.