HOLLYWOOD - Alec Baldwin would have had to pull the trigger for his gun to fire in the fatal “Rust” movie set shooting, a new Federal Bureau of Investigation forensic report concludes.

Baldwin, who produced and starred in the picture, believed he was handling a “cold gun” without live ammo on set in Oct. 2021. The gun he was brandishing, in fact, had live ammo, and it was fired, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

“The trigger wasn’t pulled. I didn’t pull the trigger,” Baldwin said in a Dec. 2021 interview with ABC’s George Stephanopolous.

FBI forensics disagree. In the report acquired by ABC News, accidental discharge testing showed that the gun used, a .45 Long Colt caliber F.LLI Pietta single-action revolver, would not and cannot fire without the trigger being pulled.

If the hammer was quarter or half-cocked, the gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger,” per the report cited by ABC News.

Story Date: August 28, 2022