After Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on the set of “Rust” in October, California State Sen. Dave Cortese proposed banning firearms on film sets.
But now Cortese has backed off from that idea after getting pushback from the entertainment industry.
Cortese introduced a bill last week that would impose credentialing requirements on production armorers and would limit the use of live ammunition to certain reality TV shows, such as those featuring hunting or shooting competitions. But the bill stops short of banning all functional guns — including blank-firing weapons — from film and TV sets.
“My preference would have been if we could not use blanks at all in any kind of production,” Cortese said in an interview. But in recent weeks he got a clear message from film armorers: “We have to have blanks.”
“They convinced me,” Cortese said. “That was pretty much a universal concern.”
On Oct. 21, Alec Baldwin...
But now Cortese has backed off from that idea after getting pushback from the entertainment industry.
Cortese introduced a bill last week that would impose credentialing requirements on production armorers and would limit the use of live ammunition to certain reality TV shows, such as those featuring hunting or shooting competitions. But the bill stops short of banning all functional guns — including blank-firing weapons — from film and TV sets.
“My preference would have been if we could not use blanks at all in any kind of production,” Cortese said in an interview. But in recent weeks he got a clear message from film armorers: “We have to have blanks.”
“They convinced me,” Cortese said. “That was pretty much a universal concern.”
On Oct. 21, Alec Baldwin...
- 1/12/2022
- by Gene Maddaus
- Variety Film + TV
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