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How to fire a gun without touching the trigger
Modern designed production firearms have internal safeties that prevent the firing pin from moving forward if the trigger isn't pulled.
That video is on single action revolvers which have been out of vogue for over a century.
Skip to 1:40
https://youtu.be/V2RDitgCaD0?si=
For all the gun owners in the thread, GarandThumb recently did a video (youtube gun guy) where he drop tested several handguns and a couple of them actually did go off. As many of you are saying, firearms shouldn't go off without the trigger being pulled and that's for sure the case a large majority of the time.
Frustratingly the article doesn't mention anything about the make, model or condition of the firearm here. It's totally possible it went off just from being dropped.
He almost certainly tested the very few modern handguns known to have that problem, for which they rightly got a lot of hate. You'd have to link the specific video, I don't watch GT.