Originally Posted by billethkid (Post 2036499)

Was it reported anywhere regarding whether he pulled the hammer back? Necessary first step, by the shooter, to firing a single action revolver.

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 2036476)

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?

Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 2036571)

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.

Originally Posted by NoMoSno (Post 2036688)

Interesting video
Alec Baldwin is WRONG - YouTube

Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2036732)

Regardless of what a court finds, by saying he feels no guilt after killing a co-worker, he sunk himself in the court of public opinion. What a heartless A HOLE!

Originally Posted by tophcfa (Post 2036732)

Regardless of what a court finds, by saying he feels no guilt after killing a co-worker, he sunk himself in the court of public opinion. What a heartless A HOLE!

Originally Posted by Boston-Sean (Post 2038709)

Last night there was a 2 hour network show (20/20??) on the Rust movie shooting. It included a lot of reporting about a camera operator who was killed 7 years ago in Georgia when she was hit by a train while filming a movie. The director in that case spent 2 years in jail.

The reason I say that Baldwin won't be charged is what the Left wing DA had to say on the show last night. Multiple times she said her investigation was focused on who put the live round in the gun. Nothing to say about Baldwins claim that he didn't pull the trigger.

If she was asked about that it got edited out but I suspect they didn't even bother to ask her about Baldwin. In a 2 hour show there was less than 1 minute where a firearms expert discussed what Baldwin claimed happened. His conclusion after demonstrating how a single action revolver works was that in theory it was possible for Baldwin to be correct but that it would take a seriously defective firearm. A properly functioning gun could not go off the way Baldwin described. They are specifically designed not to go off like that.

So Baldwin has the media and the DA looking out for him. He walks.