In the filing, prosecutors allege that Baldwin “violated decades-old guns safety and set safety standards by pointing the gun at a person, cocking it, and pulling the trigger-- this is especially egregious given that the rehearsal/blocking did not call for the actor to do any of these things.”

“It is a substantial and unjustifiable risk to point a real gun at another human being, cock it, and pull the trigger under nearly all circumstances but certainly so where the gun handler did not participate in the loading of the gun and determined with certainty that all rounds were inert of ensured that all six chambers of the revolver were empty,” they go on to say.

The prosecutors assert that “the facts are simple” in this case, adding, “Guns kill and everyone, including Mr. Baldwin, knows it.”

(via Bearing Arms)