Let's assume for discussion that Jodi's lie about the gun being Travis' is true...
It depends on how the gun was stored. Some people will store a semi-automatic pistol with no bullet in the chamber, which would require her racking the slide to chamber a bullet. Doesn't fit her lie. Other people will store an automatic handgun with no bullet in the chamber and a full magazine out of the gun. No way this fits her lie.
Most people will store an semi-automatic pistol with the full magazine in the gun and a bullet chambered -- with the
safety on and the
hammer down. This would require her to flip the safety off and pull back (cock) the hammer -- if it's single-action. If it's double-action -- she would not have to cock the hammer.
The other way most people will keep a loaded semi-automatic pistol is "cocked & locked". Magazine in, bullet chambered, hammer cocked but
safety on. This requires you flip the safety level to fire the gun.
The
least likely way for anyone with any common sense would keep a semi-auto handgun is with a bullet chambered, cocked if SA, and the safety off. This is the
only way anyone with no knowledge of firearms would reasonably be able to pick up a gun and pull the trigger to discharge the weapon. We refer to this method of storing a gun as
unsafe.
So, storing a handgun in any of the most likely ways would
require her to
at least look down at the gun in her hand to find the safety, flip it off, then look up & acquire a target & pull the trigger.
