Gun could have fired without trigger being pulled.
 

Potential modifications to the firing mechanism of the gun prompted dismissal of charges against Baldwin, source tells CNN | CNN

Just saw this. It deserves its own thread as Alec Baldwin has been pretty much tried and found guilty already by some. This hopefully will counteract that.

It was a stage/prop gun, so at some point it would have been fired during the movie production...

So the FBI gun inspection report was wrong?

Looks like it. And they may be investigating who and why the trigger was modified.

Well.
If I was in prison on the evidence of an FBI "Gun Expert" my lawyer would be filing my new appeal first thing Monday morning!

We will have to get more facts on that but you are probably right that many defense lawyers and jailhouse ones are looking at this situation with new hope for their own cases.

Yes... I'll trust "a source at CNN" rather than an actual gun expert at the FBI...

Can we all say hearsay.

Fox News on Alec Baldwin developments.
 

Alec Baldwin'''s '''Rust''' criminal charges officially dropped; director injured in fatal shooting spotted on set | Fox News

I rarely watch Fox News but did check this.

They are just reporting the same story as everyone else...

I realize that you do want Baldwin to be innocent... But that doesn't male it so...

OJ was found to be "not guilty", but we all know how that went down...

Alex Baldwin is innocent until proven guilty. And OJ obviously murdered those two people. Baldwin murdered no one that I know of.

Alec shot a woman to death without checking to see if the revolver he pointed at her was loaded with live rounds. It was not during a "take" or filming. He was carelessly fooling around with the gun. He was charged not with murder, but involuntary homicide.

CNN? The primary source of fake news? lol

Alec killed the woman with a revolver. A revolver's hammer must first be pulled back, then released to fire a round whether it is a single or double action weapon.

I am going with the FBI lab on this one.

Yet OJ was found to be "not guilty"...

Some of the replies indicate a lack of knowledge just how a single action revolver works.....

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