what a great idea

[bONES]

Guns into Art

Donate your gun or sponsor the destruction of a banned assault rifle and we will transform it into art.

Gun Bakes

Gun Bakes are public events where guns are heated up in a forge to 2500 degrees F and then transformed into art by professional blacksmiths and their teenage apprentices. Often in collaboration with local community groups and/or schools, these events commonly take place at or near the site of a gun-related death and aim to help communities psychologically reclaim parks and schools after the tragedy.

Peaceful Streets works with professional blacksmiths to melt down assault weapons and turn them into memorial park benches and/or bicycle racks for parks or schools, as well as candleholders and jewelry.

Creating these lasting fixtures in honor of a victim of gun violence is a way of transforming the negative power of violence into a positive, lasting memory. Hold a Gun Turn-In in your community and the guns you collect and donate to Peaceful Streets will become part of an art piece commemorating a person killed by gunfire.

Bicycle rack made with 75 semi-automatic pistols and installed in front of the San Francisco City Hall

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i'd donate my time to something like this here in Toronto

[SaggyBalls]

what about making guns into guitars?

somebody ring up giggles.

[YearsAlongTheSea]

I don't think I'd be able to part with my .22; it makes the whole "get off my damn lawn" statement that much more meaningful. I'd be down to get my Smith 'n Wesson turned into some brass knuckles. Where do we draw the line here?

[Gr8FuL]

Do whatever to the banned assualt rifles but why ruin perfectley good hunting rifles and shotguns. Damn instead of donating them to this "art", contact me, i'll BUY them.

[hippyrastachild]

that is a really cool thing! And a bicycle rack to boot....