Following the tragic events on the site of the film "Rust," many in Hollywood are asking why real guns are still used when computer-generated imagery could take the danger out of an actor's hands.
The talks of removing live firearms from film sets have intensified after actor Alec Baldwin fatally shot cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a weapon he was told was safe.
Even with rules and regulations in place to keep actors and film crews safe, the latest events show that anything can happen.
In a staff memo on Friday, the executive producer of ABC's police drama "The Rookie," Alexi Hawley, gave his opinion on the event and using live firearms, saying "any risk is too much risk," the Associated Press reported.
Hawley shared that the events in New Mexico had "shaken us all." In his memo, he added that there "will be no more 'live' weapons on the show."
Now replica guns that shoot pellets and not bullets will be used, with muzzle flashes added in post-production.
Craig Zobel, the director of "Mare of Easttown," also spoke up on Twitter, asking for the entire industry to follow suit after his show added gunshots after filming.
A petition was launched over the weekend asking for real guns to be removed from production sets permanently.
The petition called attention to other notable deaths at the hands of prop guns, like Brandon Lee, son of Bruce Lee, who was killed in 1993 by a makeshift bullet in a prop gun.
The petition currently has over 26,000 signatures as the call to keep film sites safe grows.
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