My Piettas are Cap & Ball, but I also have conversion cylinders for them that take 45LC cartridges. Those cylinders replace the C&B cylinders and they have the firing pins on each cylinder. There is no transfer bar system. There is an "in-between" notch to rest the hammer for safety. Other wise the hammer strikes the firing pin directly. I have n o idea what type Baldwin was using, but it wasn't C&B.K.Mooneyham wrote: ↑Sat Dec 04, 2021 10:18 amKeith B wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 8:41 pmWith a transfer bar safety system, as long as it is functioning as designed, a hammer dropping without the trigger depressed should not result in the hammer being able to strike the firing pin.oohrah wrote: ↑Fri Dec 03, 2021 12:17 pm I have several Pietta SA revolver replicas. It is quite possible that he merely pulled back the hammer and then let it go or it slipped accidentally, without getting fully cocked. Those triggers are pretty light also. I believe the latter, an accidental slip of the hammer, so Baldwin is quite possibly truthful about that.
That still doesn't exonerate him from violating the other rules, and he should be held liable as much as the armorer.
I formerly owned a Ruger Vaquero with the transfer bar system. The hammer had to be cocked back fully, and then the trigger pulled fully to the rear to not only release the hammer, but also to push the transfer bar up where the hammer could come forward to strike it, and transfer that strike into the firing pin. I played around with it, unloaded of course, and if the trigger wasn't all the way back, the hammer would release, but the transfer bar would drop down, preventing the firing pin from being struck...which was the entire point of the system.
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Re: NM: Hand gun with trigger pulled by Alec Baldwin in rehearsal kills one injures one
I have several Pietta SA revolver replicas. It is quite possible that he merely pulled back the hammer and then let it go or it slipped accidentally, without getting fully cocked. Those triggers are pretty light also. I believe the latter, an accidental slip of the hammer, so Baldwin is quite possibly truthful about that.
That still doesn't exonerate him from violating the other rules, and he should be held liable as much as the armorer.
That still doesn't exonerate him from violating the other rules, and he should be held liable as much as the armorer.