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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPolice experiment reveals Alec Baldwin could have fired gun in Rust shooting without actually pullin
pulling the triggerOne of the most shocking claims to surface from the tragic incident that took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust came from Alec Baldwin, one of the stars of the western.
During a recent ABC News interview, the actor said he "didn't pull the trigger" of the gun that fatally wounded Hutchins, even though he was pointing what he thought to be a harmless prop in her direction when it fired during a rehearsal for the film. New details from the ongoing investigation suggest this assertion is not as implausible as one might think.
Vanity Fair reporter Anthony Breznican conducted numerous interviews surrounding the incident, including with the investigators looking into it. Santa Fe County district attorney Mary Carmack-Altwies said her team conducted an informal experiment to see if what Baldwin was saying was possible. It turns out, it is.
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After two investigators, including the one who supplied the gun, examined the weapon, Carmack-Altwies came to a conclusion. "You can pull the hammer back without actually pulling the trigger and without actually locking it," she explained. "So you pull it back partway, it doesn't lock, and then if you let it go, the firing pin can hit the primer of the bullet."
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/police-experiment-reveals-alec-baldwin-163737648.html
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Police experiment reveals Alec Baldwin could have fired gun in Rust shooting without actually pullin (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Feb 2022
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a kennedy
(29,669 posts)1. 😳 😳 😳 😳 😳
Joinfortmill
(14,427 posts)2. Who put the bullet in the gun?
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,010 posts)5. The movie's armorer I guess
At some point he'd have to pull the trigger.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)3. Well, yeah
A question in my mind, was any of it recorded so they can see what was going on
vanlassie
(5,675 posts)4. But why was there a bullet??