SavannahMann
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And therein lies the crux of the matter. The evidence WAS destroyed. There is no logical reason for destroying the gun. This isn't the first time a person has accidentally killed a person. They've handled these cases before. Supposing that you are correct--and I am not conceding that point, everyone associated with this case in that justice department in NM should be held criminally liable.
I believe you are too easily led down the garden path and that is part of the reason this country has sunk to the depths that it has.
The FBI was trying to disprove the claim that the weapon could fire without the trigger being pulled. They said they could not make it fire without the trigger being pulled except by striking the hammer. The firing pin rests on the cartridge primer in that design.
They were trying to get the weapon to fail. One of the lessons from the Remington 700 situation I pointed out above. It didn’t fail every time. It might fail once out of a hundred, or thousand instances. If it failed today. It might not fail again for weeks or months, or perhaps even years.
Testing weapons to try and induce a failure will sometimes cause a failure you didn’t expect. The Army while testing weapons destroys many inadvertently. They do this to try and eliminate any design flaws that are not apparent. Something that should have prevented the Sig Pistols they took which can fire inadvertently if it is dropped.
Now I haven’t said the Armorer was not negligent. The FBI report states the weapon was not well maintained. So choosing that weapon was a very bad decision. Allowing live ammo on the set was also a violation of industry standards.
But you don’t want the Armorer. You want Baldwin roasted on a spit. Not because you think he is guilty. But because you don’t like leftists and want to see them punished.