FBI forensic test concludes Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger in fatal set shooting 

A new FBI forensic report claims that Alec Baldwin must have pulled the trigger in the fatal shooting on the “Rust” movie set, despite the actor’s claims that he didn’t. 

The FBI conducted an accidental discharge test on the gun that ended up killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and determined that the gun “could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger.”

While on the set of a Western movie produced by Alec Baldwin last year, the actor shot Hutchins. Baldwin believed he was holding a gun without live ammunition, however, the gun went off striking Hutchins and the movie's director, Joel Souza. 

According to the test, when the 45 Colt caliber F.lli Pietta single-action revolver's hammer was in the quarter and half-cock positions the gun would not fire without the trigger being pulled.

When the hammer was in a fully cocked position, it "could not be made to fire without a pull of the trigger while the working internal components were intact and functional," according to ABC news. 

During an interview with ABC News in December, Baldwin said he did not fire the weapon while it was in his hands. 

"The trigger wasn't pulled," Baldwin said. "I didn't pull the trigger."

According to the attorney for Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who was in charge of the weapons on the movie set, the FBI’s report contradicts Baldwin’s claims that he didn’t pull the trigger. 

"These new filings demonstrate various production members’ attempts from the very beginning to shirk responsibility and scapegoat Hannah, a 24-year-old armorer, for this tragedy," attorney Jason Bowles told ABC News. 

However, the actor’s attorney told CNN on Sunday that the FBI report is “being misconstrued.” 

"The gun fired in testing only one time—without having to pull the trigger—when the hammer was pulled back and the gun broke in two different places," attorney Luke Nikas said in an email to CNN. "The FBI was unable to fire the gun in any prior test, even when pulling the trigger because it was in such poor condition."

The FBI’s forensic report is part of a criminal investigation into the shooting being led by the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office. The report and other documents related to the shooting were submitted and reviewed by the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator earlier this month. 

Detectives are waiting to get Baldwin’s phone records as part of the investigation, the sheriff’s office said on Thursday.