The revolver that killed photographer Halyna Hutchins could not be made to go off without pulling the trigger in FBI tests. Actor Alec Baldwin was holding the gun at the time of the accident.
of the United States According to a report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the American actress Alec Baldwinin the revolver held could not fire without pulling the gun’s trigger. Among other things, they reported on the matter ABC: n uutisjaosto and a US newspaper The Washington Post.
The cameraman was killed when the gun went off Halyna Hutchinsin Ruston the set of the movie in October 2021. The director was also injured in the situation Joel Souza. It is still not known why the gun had a real cartridge in it.
Two months since the incident, Baldwin told In an interview with the ABC channel, that he would never point a gun at anyone and then pull the trigger.
“Someone put a real cartridge in the gun. A cartridge that should not even have been at the scene.”
report according to FBI testing, the gun could not be fired without pulling the trigger.
“When you applied enough pressure to the trigger, the safety settings were overloaded and the striker released”, the report wrote.
However, during the tests, it was noted that during them some of the internal parts of the weapon were damaged, “resulting in the only successful firing of the weapon [ilman liipaisemista vetämistä]”. That is, the weapon did not fire at that time due to a faulty safety system.
The report noted that “when testing damage shots, it may not always be possible to recreate all the circumstances that led to the weapon going off without pulling the trigger.”
Baldwin’s lawyer Luke Nikaksen according to which the report is misinterpreted.
“The FBI was only able to fire the gun in one test because the gun was in such poor condition.”
Published among the documents was also a toxicology report on Hutchins’ death, which said he died of a gunshot wound to the chest “accidentally”.
In April, the film production was fined around 130,000 euros after New Mexico state authorities assessed that the producers violated safety rules and “showed indifference to the safety of workers”.
According to the authorities, the accident would not have happened if the Rust film production had followed the industry code of conduct regarding firearm safety.