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Yea, I wouldn't say "magically go off" but this isn't the gun misbehaving. It was a negligent discharge through improper operation. Its not a malfunction of the gun.
And to the people who don't get how old revolvers operate, they can go off without the trigger pulled in a very specific manner that isn't going to occur without someone actively getting the gun ready to fire. It's the manual operation of the firing action.
Some newer revolvers will have a mechanism that doesn't allow the hammer to swing all the way forward without the trigger being in the pulled position, but not all of them so.
And for an example of how dangerous blanks can be, the actor Jon-Erik Hexum during filming took a gun with a blank, held it to his temple and pulled the trigger. The force of the blank killed him.