To be fair to Burns, a SAA with six chambers loaded has shot a lot of people who weren't touching the trigger.
Cowboys who had a stirrup flipped over the saddle often had that stirrup slip off the saddle and fall down on the hammer, causing a discharge of said SAA. That is why they always said "Load one, skip one, load the other four", or "five beans in the wheel".
Always lower the hammer on an empty chamber on a SAA or old Model Ruger, for that matter, or any of the Italian clone revolvers.
