The newest rumor is that some of the crew used that gun for some actual target shooting the day before. If that is true, one scenario is that when they finished, they dropped the magazine, but failed to clear the live round in the chamber. And the gun was never inspected before the accident except to insert a magazine of blanks. (I'm assuming a semi-auto, but don't know.)
All of which violate many basic gun safety rules, as we know. But they didn't. Especially the idiot bimbo they hired as "armourer."
They had semi-autos in 1880? I did not know that...
