Marantz4250b
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And this is what I'm talking about when I say that his version of events should be treated with extreme caution!BBM. Feel free to prove it because AB has already made a legal filing as to what he was told by HH and there were witnesses.
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"Baldwin asked Hutchins whether she wanted to see him *advertiser censored* the gun, as the script required. She responded yes. Baldwin tipped the gun down somewhat so that the lens of the camera would be able to focus on his hand's action on the top of the gun. While performing this action, Baldwin asked Hutchins, 'Am I holding it too far down?' and 'Do you see that?' Hutchins responded that she could see Baldwin's action from her angle. Baldwin then pulled back the hammer, but not far enough to actually *advertiser censored* the gun. When Baldwin let go of the hammer, the gun went off," the filing says.Alec Baldwin says cinematographer told him to cock gun before fatal 'Rust' shooting: Legal filing
"Alec Baldwin once again is trying to avoid liability and accountability for his reckless actions," attorneys for Halyna Hutchins' family said in a statement.abc7chicago.com
The final two sentences are plainly and simply untrue. That gun absolutely, 100%, CAN NOT under any circumstances discharge unless the hammer is retracted all the way to the full-c9ck position. The cylinder completes it's 1/6th rotation and is locked by the bolt at the bottom at the precise time that the sear engages with the firing notch on the hammer which holds it in place until the trigger is pressed. The cylinder is not in a position to present the centre of the primer to the hammer nose unless it has completed it's 1/6th rotation which it doesn't until the hammer is fully retracted.
Even if we assume that by some fault in the lockwork the cylinder was allowed to complete it's necessary rotation with a half retracted hammer then it still couldn't have discharged because there are at least two notches on the hammer which would have stopped its movement on its way forward. And, I would add, that even if those notches had failed then it is extremely unlikely that a half retraced hammer would have had enough force to fire the cartridge.
So, that statement by AB is absolutely and categorically false. Whether it's his genuine mistaken belief or an outright lie we will probably never know. Not that it makes much difference.
If he can't make a true statement as regards the gun then why should we accept anything he says as to what HH allegedly said to him?
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