Naman Ramachandran A Change.org petition addressed to Alec Baldwin that calls for a ban on using real firearms on set and demands better working conditions for crew has passed its stated goal of 25,000 signatures.A prop gun handled by Alec Baldwin discharged on Thursday while filming a scene for the movie “Rust” in New Mexico, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding director Joel Souza.The petition was started by award-winning filmmaker Bandar Albuliwi (“Peace After Marriage”) on Friday and passed 25,000 signatures in the early hours of Monday morning.
By press time, 25,157 had signed.“We need to make sure that this avoidable tragedy never happens again,” Albuliwi states in the petition.
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