Post Millennial - FBI concludes Alec Baldwin pulled trigger in Halyna Hutchins shooting

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According to an FBI analysis, Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger of the gun that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on the New Mexico set of the movie Rust on October 21, 2021.

ABC news reports that the weapon Baldwin said he thought was a "cold gun," a .45 Colt (.45 Long Colt) caliber F.lli Pietta single-action revolver, "could not have been fired without pulling the trigger, according to an FBI forensic report."

The FBI report shows that the hammer had to have been fully cocked, not in a quarter or half cocked position, and that the gun "could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional."

In a December 2021 interview with George Stephanopolous, Alec Baldwin said he "didn't pull the trigger."

"Well, the trigger wasn't pulled," Baldwin said, "I didn't pull the trigger."

"So you never pulled the trigger?" Stephanopolous asked.

"No, no," Baldwin said. "I would never point a gun and pull that trigger at them. Never."

TMZ called the report a "bombshell" but did note that it hasn't been clarified if the FBI tested on the actual gun from the incident or another model of the same kind.

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

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