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BBC News - Alec Baldwin may be recharged with Rust gun death because of 'additional facts' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67141319

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[-] NightAuthor@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The actor said at the time that he drew back the hammer on the pistol, but did not pull the trigger.

Charges were dropped […] after it was reported that the .45 Colt revolver had been modified with a new trigger in a way that could have made a misfire more likely.

Experts […] concluded there was no way for the gun to have been fired without the trigger being pulled.

[-] hiddengoat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Prosecutors then had the replica gun forensically tested and had some parts of the weapon replaced after it was broken during the FBI's testing.

This is pretty much a mistrial right here, if it even gets that far. It would take barely more than zero effort to make the case that altering the firearm after the FBI's testing was enough to invalidate any results the prosecutors came up with.

I do not know why this is even a point that matters. He was on a set, in his capacity as an actor, blocking a scene with the cinematographer. This was a scene in which the gun was fired close to the camera. Him pulling the trigger was his job. The fact that the armorer did not do their fucking job and control live weapons on set is where the culpability actually is.

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