[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr

I was keeping an open mind on this situation until I heard Alec Baldwin claim that he never pulled the trigger. Guns don’t go off on their own. Some guns may fire if dropped but this was obviously not the case here.
This gun is a single action revolver. It would take two actions to fire it. Bald wins assertion that he didn’t pull the trigger is preposterous. Was he on drugs or is he suffering from some sort of mental illness that would prevent him from realizing that he pulled the trigger?

Having said all that, the first question that I think needs to be asked is; Why were there live rounds on the set of this movie to begin with? Then I would ask why are the firing pins in these guns not removed? Can they not dub the sound of the gun firing later on?

Now I'm reading that Baldwin is stating that he pulled the hammer back as instructed. It might be possible that he didn't pull it back far enough and it slipped and the pin hit the round. But the fact that he says that he didn't realize that the gun went off is absurd. When a Colt .45 goes off in your hand to know it. And it's very different when it goes off with a live round as opposed to a blank. Even if Baldwin is not familiar with guns and hasn't fired live rounds, he's fired plenty of blanks in his career. He certainly would have felt a big difference.