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Real Guns Aren’t Needed on Film and TV Sets, Experts Say, Amid Calls for a Permanent Ban

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Rust” that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza involved a real firearm fired by actor Alec Baldwin that contained live rounds rather thank blanks.

In the tragedy’s aftermath, the industry is facing the question of whether real firearms should ever again be allowed on a set.In response to the “Rust” tragedy, ABC’s cop drama “The Rookie” banned real firearms.

Eric Kripke, showrunner of Amazon’s gritty superhero series “The Boys,” tweeted that he was taking “a simple, easy pledge: no more guns with blanks on any of my sets ever.”A Change.org petition to ban real guns from movie and TV productions has nearly 70,000 signatures.

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