Alec Baldwin's lawyer questions appropriate handling of weapon after 'Rust' shooting

Alex Spiro, Alex Baldwin's legal counsel, questioned second witness Timoteo Benavidez about the revolver used in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Benavidez, a retired lieutenant with the Santa Fe Sheriff's Office, maintained on the stand that he kept the revolver on the passenger seat of his vehicle following the incident.

"I can see you're wearing gloves as you're taking out the exhibit today," Spiro said. "You've got purple gloves on."

He continued, "The reason I'm asking this is, and I don't think you talked about this in direct, but the day you took the gun, you weren't wearing gloves, right?"

"That is correct," Benavidez said.

"But you were sort of careful when you took it and you sort of ... you took it but without touching the trigger," Spiro said. "So somebody wanted to swab the trigger for DNA."

"The way I handled it was trying to be as safe as possible because I didn't have a holster for it," Benavidez said. "So I was trying to hold it so I don't ... I didn't pull the trigger because I didn't know if it was empty or or loaded or not."