LOS ANGELES — The way firearms are used on film and television sets is about to change in the wake of the “Rust” accident, where actor Alec Baldwin inadvertently shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun.
An influential industrywide labor-management committee, composed of union and studio representatives, is weighing revisions to so-called safety bulletins that dictate how guns and ammunition should be handled in the entertainment industry, according to people with knowledge of the talks who were not authorized to speak publicly.
Among the possible revisions: requiring armorers to be present when weapons are handed over to actors and providing the crew with a glossary of terms used by armorers on sets, one of the people said.
