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I was very skeptical about this story playing out as told. When looking for a more complete article, this exact story is published from 2019 from multiple sources.
While I don't think it is a requirement all guns sold in the US need to pass the SAAMI Drop Test, I can't imagine anything being sold that wouldn't pass it, especially a revolver where the design likely hasn't changed in 100 years. The drop test covers drops at various angles from 4 feet high, higher than a person sitting and taking off a shoe. Revolvers also need to have the hammer pulled back before firing or have extremely long and heavy trigger pulls.
I'm calling both fake news and if this story did happen, I can't see it being anything but a negligent discharge from someone assuming it wasn't loaded or just being a fool putting a finger where it didn't belong.
I took a concealed carry course ages ago, and it helped to instill a healthy level of paranoia about unintentional discharge.
My takeaways were:
Absolute safest way to carry. Only downside is you only have 4 shots to work with, but if you need more than that, you're probably dead anyway.
I largely agree, but less so with the empty chamber/hammerless points. Anything modern is going to have a transfer bar blocking the firing pin from reaching the primer without a full trigger depress. For the hammerless, I don't know if you could drop that thing in any way from any height where the internal hammer would get enough inertia to overpower that trigger spring. Anything to do that would advance it to the next chamber anyway and come back on a loaded one.
Even so, having people be extra cautious is better the extra careless. You should always do not just what is safe, but also whatever you are comfortable doing after understanding your own personality.