Interestingly, some accounts of the yet to be fully released FBI report on the gun in question state that the FBI investigators caused the weapon to fire withou

Interestingly, some accounts of the yet to be fully released FBI report on the gun in question state that the FBI investigators caused the weapon to fire without pulling the trigger because the gun was in such poor condition, that one of the times when they pulled back the hammer, some part of the gun broke and it fired. Apparently, it was in such poor condition that the gun did NOT fire on some of their attempts even when they actually did pull the trigger. So their public statements so far are that the gun was not possible to fire without pulling the trigger -- as long as all the parts were intact (which they were not by the end of testing.)