[Crowbob]

So the gun can fire without pulling the trigger?

Alex says he did not pull the trigger. If the gun can fire without pulling the trigger he is not lying.

If the gun can fire with the application of force to the hammer without pulling the trigger, to be fair, I can see this being an accident not attributable to negligence.

Is it common that handguns can fire with applied force to the hammer without the trigger being pulled?