A sheriff and gun expert are expressing doubt about Alec Baldwin's claim that he did not pull the trigger on the set of the film Rust, despite an attorney for the film's assistant director backing up the actor's claim.
'The trigger wasn't pulled, I didn't pull the trigger,' the actor told George Stephanopoulos in an interview set to air Thursday night, often having to pause to collect himself as he discussed the death of Halyna Hutchins. 
'I would never point a gun at anyone at point a trigger at them, never.' 
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Carpenter, a weapons armorer who works for Dark Thirty Film Services, said that this is highly unlikely. 
'In order to make it fire, you have to put your thumb up onto the hammer, cock the hammer all the way back, and then as the hammer is completely cocked back, then you pull the trigger and then the gun fires,' Carpenter told .

'So that's very important because that gun had to have two step process to fire. It had to be cocked and the trigger pulled to fire.' 
Carpenter continued: 'Once you cock the hammer back on one of those old west guns, it doesn't take a lot to set that trigger off.'
His comments come after Santa Fe Sheriff Adan Mendoza told the outlet that 'guns don't just go off.
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But Lisa Tarraco, attorney for Assistant Director Dave Halls - who along with Baldwin and set armorer Hannah [url=]







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Hutchins died October 21 from after Baldwin claimed he picked up the gun and it went off

Meanwhile, Seth Kenney - the owner of the prop arsenal that provided the film with guns and ammo - said that they only provided 50 dummy rounds and other blanks to the movie. 
He told GMA the bullet that killed Hutchins doesn't match the rounds that his company, PDQ, sent to the film.
He said: 'They found four rounds that were close enough to take in with them.

They're not a match, but they were close. There's something very unique about the live rounds that were found on Rust, but we've got to wait for the FBI to do its job.' 
Detectives are investigating whether Kenney, a 51-year-old Hollywood veteran who was supposed to provide the film with dummy rounds and blanks, may have sent recycled bullets from a previous set, according to an affidavit filed by the Sante Fe County Sheriff's Office. 
Investigators there continue to probe Hutchins' death, and have yet to file any criminal charges. 





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Baldwin wept as he described accidentally shooting dead his cinematographer on the set of his film Rust during an interview with Stephanopoulos.
He revealed the horror he felt when he picked up the gun and it went off, killing Halyna Hutchins.
'I think back, I think: 'What could I have done?' Baldwin said in a teaser of the interview that's set to air tomorrow.
He insists that he never pulled the trigger but said it appeared to inexplicitly fire on its own. 
It's not yet known why the weapon was loaded with a real bullet. 
'Someone put a live bullet in the gun - a bullet that wasn't even supposed to be on the property,' Baldwin said. 











In a teaser of the interview that's set to air Thursday at 8 p.m., the actor denied firing the bullet, saying the gun inexplicably went off after he picked it up

It was revealed earlier today that the bullet that killed Hutchins, may have been a homemade bullet that a New [url=/news/mexico/index.html]Mexico armorer supplied from a previous film where  makeshift ammunition was used to train actors at a firing range. 
Baldwin has made his account on Twitter private, just before the ABC interview airs.  
During the interview, Baldwin spoke fondly of Hutchins, saying: 'She was someone who was loved by everyone who worked with and liked by everyone who worked with - and admired.
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'He answered every question. He talked about Halyna Hutchins, talked about meeting her family as well. 
'[He] went through in detail what happened on the set that day.' 
The interview comes as investigators continue to probe the shooting and now believe a homemade bullet supplied by a New Mexico armorer may have made its way on set and into Baldwin's pistol.
Weapons expert Steve Wolf told TMZ that the type of gun Baldwin was holding had a sensitive trigger that could be activated at slight pressure.
'Even tensing your hand on one of these single-action guns is enough to discharge it,' he told the outlet.

'What he's saying is he's not intentionally deciding to shoot the gun, and this does happen.
'These guns can be fired very, very, easily and they are sometimes fired inadvertently, but they don't discharge on their own.'  
New Mexico investigators have been granted permission to search armorer Kenney's business PDQ Arm & Prop, LLC, an ammunition store in an Albuquerque strip mall, to determine if the bullet that killed Hutchins matches any Kenney has in stock, according to the .











Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins (center) died after being shot by Baldwin during a rehearsal on October 21 in New Mexico


















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The gun prepared by the film's armorer, Hannah Gutierrez Reed (right), discharged in Baldwin's hands as it was aimed at Hutchins (left)












Mamie Mitchell (left) and attorney Gloria Allred laid out their lawsuit regarding the shooting - which alleges assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and deliberate infliction of harm













The suit claims assault, intentional infliction of emotional distress and deliberate infliction of harm.

It also states that the scene being shot did not require a gun to be fired.
'I ran out and called 911 and said, 'Bring everybody, send everybody,''' Mitchell said during a press conference. 'This woman is gone at the beginning of her career.
She was an extraordinary, rare, very rare woman.'
Serge Svetnoy, the head electrician who held Hutchins in his arms as she died has also sued Baldwin, Gutierrez-Reed and assistant director David Halls over 'severe emotional distress' after the fatal shooting and revealed that the scene did not call for Baldwin to fire the gun. 











Luper Lane has criticized the film's production as one that created the perfect storm for the tragic shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins




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Svetnoy filed the suit against the three crew members - as well as others, who remain unnamed - and claimed that their alleged negligence led to the shooting and put him in emotional turmoil.
Svetnoy alleged in the court documents that the bullet struck director Joel Souza, 48, and killed Hutchins nearly hit him, too, according to TMZ.
He also said that he was one of the first people to tend to Halyna while she was bleeding out and attempted to keep her conscious.
He told TMZ that he's suing Baldwin because he 'owed a duty to the Plaintiff and other crew members and actors on the 'Rust' set to handle the Colt Revolver provided to him by Defendant Halls with reasonable care and diligence for the safety of 'Rust' cast and crew.'
Lane Luper, who served as the film's A-camera first assistant, said he quit one day before the fatal shooting because employees were being overworked, COVID-safety was not being enforced properly and gun safety was poor.
'I think with Rust, it was the perfect storm of the armorer, the assistant director, the culture that was on set, the rushing.

It was everything,' he told Good Morning America about the events that led up to the fatal shooting.
'It wasn't just one individual. Everything had to fall into place for this one-in-a-trillion thing to happen.'
In his letter of resignation, Luper said there had been two accidental weapon discharges on set and one accidental sound-effects explosion that went off around the crew.
'There have been NO explanations as to what to expect for these shots.

When anyone from production is asked we are usually met with the same answers about not having enough time to complete the day if we rehearse or that 'this is a 21 day shoot,'' Luper wrote in the letter.
He added that the crew grew exhausted of long commutes from the set to their lodging, which for some more than two hours away.
'In my 10 years as a camera assistant I've never worked on a show that cares so little for the safety of its crew,' Luper said.
In a statement to Sky News, a spokesperson for the producers hit back at his claims, saying: 'Mr.

Luper's allegations around budget and safety are patently false, which is not surprising considering his job was to be a camera operator, and he had absolutely nothing to do with it or knowledge of safety protocols or budgets.
'As we continue to cooperate with all investigations, we are limited in what we can say,' the spokesperson continued.
'However, safety is always the number one priority.
Some social media users were skeptical of Baldwin's claim that he didn't pull the trigger.
'The only way any firearm is going to fire is if the trigger mechanism is pulled or jolted hard on older weapons.

I.E. dropped, banged hard,' tweeted one user. 'Do you truly believe people are so stupid to believe your nonsense?'
'Good grief his 'acting' is horrendous,' tweeted another. 'Western style handguns either require the shooter cock the weapon first or don't.
Either way, this weapon had the trigger pulled. It wasn't dropped.
'@AlecBaldwin had it in his hands and killed Halyna and wounded another. Man up, already.'