Alec Baldwin’s Attorneys Claim Prosecutor Hid Proof Gun Was Damaged

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1. > The FBI broke off the sear during testing by hitting the hammer with a mallet, in an effort to show that the gun would not fire even if jolted violently. Subsequently, the prosecution hired an expert, Lucien Haag, who reassembled the gun and concluded that it could only have fired due to a pull of the trigger.

   They’re really trying to railroad him for political reasons, shameful.

2. I don’t care if you think it’s a blank. If you fire a loaded blank at a coworker, and they get shot with an actual bullet and die, you’re a murderer. Any of the rest of us would be charged with manslaughter. No reasonable gun safety expert should have to deal with the possibility of “knuckledragger pointed the gun at an live human being intentionally and fired”.

3. I don’t understand this. So what if he pulled the trigger? He was rehearsing a gun scene. Not his problem if the gun wasn’t safe

4. This is my take – if it was someone like Pedro Pascal or Tom Hanks, everybody would wave it off as an unfortunate tragedy. They’re going after him because he’s not likable.