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The nationwide movement turning guns into garden tools
A grassroots effort converts decommissioned firearms into tools supporting community gardens, aiming to reduce gun circulation and promote environmental benefit.
- A grassroots movement is converting firearms donated by gun owners nationwide into shovels, hoes, and planters for local nonprofits and community gardens.
- Motivated by safety concerns, organizers say the effort aims to reduce firearms to prevent accidents and local violence while program leaders call it a symbolic shift benefiting communities and community gardens.
- Organizers collect guns through volunteers and local programs, rendering them inoperable before volunteer workshops recycle or reforge the metal with smiths and recyclers.
- Residents receive garden tools while the initiative lowers functional firearms, and participants report strengthened local solidarity benefiting garden projects and neighbors.
- Ongoing and expanding, the movement organizers highlight recent local events and programs drawing attention as the striking visual of weapons becoming garden tools sparks community members and public debate.
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