I think it might be stretch for those guys to say that it went off in a safe direction?
Hookeye will be along soon to educate us on what might be wrong with that Contender, I'd bet.
I hope something is wrong with it. That's a terrible design if there's not.
TC's have a dry fire feature that allows the shooter to dry fire without ammo and without cocking the hammer. The first click you heard when he pulled the trigger was dry fire, releasing the internal tension on the trigger. Then he pulled the hammer back, (dropping the hammer block) and let it fly forward into the firing pin.
Essentially the same as holding the trigger back on an old single action revolver and fanning the hammer.
Be familiar with your firearms.
Matter of time before someone has an injury or worse and the ambulance chasers get involved. Get your TC while you can, if you want one.
Not sure everyone here understands the dry fire feature on Gen 1 Contenders.