Petition launched to ban real firearms on film sets after fatal ‘Rust’ shooting

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following the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of Rust.Halyna Hutchins was killed in an incident on set, in which Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun that he had been told was safe.

Director Joel Souza was also injured.Actor Xander Berkeley has now started a petition on change.org calling on the film industry to ban real guns on sets. “She shot three feature films prior to Rust, but this would have been the movie that would have put her on the Hollywood map as a talented, female cinematographer working with an A-list celebrity,” he said of Hutchins.Berkeley continued: “We need to make sure that this avoidable tragedy never happens again.