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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
In all the years I have owned pistols, I have never had one just go off by itself. They always, 100% of the time require the trigger to be pulled with a round in the chamber. Even unloaded they don't cycle by themselves.
Of course the guns used on TV shows and movies all rattle like they are a bag of parts when the actors move them around. Maybe it is just the rattly Hollywood guns that fire themselves from movement alone.
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...in this case after one has to manually cock the hammer, and, if it had been defective would they not have noted that in prior scenes?
In a Colt or Colt reproduction the trigger itself engages the Hammer, there is no sear or interrupting device.
The trigger has an extension that locks into a notch on the Hammer base... I have seen them touchy but they still needed a squeeze.
The only way that could happen is if the trigger spring (flat spring) had broken off. They have the pistol so it will be known if it was in good repair.