Live round in gun Alec Baldwin fired. Let the conspiracies begin.

[Zeitghost]

41. No problem

First, I'm going on the report that a real (not a dummy or blank) was accidently used. If this was a dummy/blank incident as in the Brandon Lee shooting, none of what I'm about to explain really matters. But i find it hard to believe that type of accident could kill one and seriously wound another with a single shot.

That said, modern hollow points are designed to expand upon impact. This serves to keep the bullet from over penetrating it's target and also creates a larger wound channel and transfers all of the energy of the bullet into the target. So while possible, it's less likely that a hollow point would pass through one victim and then hit another. Hollow points can be fired from old firearms, but it would not be period correct. So if real, live ammunition was mistakenly used, it would in all likelihood be not be a hollow point.

Ball ammunition (or other non-hollow point ammo) does not expand which makes it more likely for it to punch a narrow hole through the target and continue on it's path.

Of course all of this depends on where someone is hit, etc.

However it happened, a series of tragic mistakes were likely made.