LA's annaul gun melt

[MXGreg]

I stumbled across a photo gallery from yesterday's annual gun melt in LA county. Thought some of you guys might like to take a look.

http://photos.dailybulletin.com/2013/07 ... un-melt/#1

[xd ED]

Saw that last year. Some ijit turned in his grandpa's WWII 1911 to get melted into some artwork.

[Tronster]

Makes me want to keep an even tighter grip on all the historic firearms I have, rather than sell them to some twit who might turn it in for a $50 food voucher.

[Heffay]

Arizona made it illegal for cities to destroy guns purchased in gun buyback programs.

Heck, even before that I think they had appraisers look at guns with exceptional value.

[MXGreg]

Saw that last year. Some ijit turned in his grandpa's WWII 1911 to get melted into some artwork.

This years batch is being turned into re-bar.

[Stylin750]

I dont get why someone would turn a gun in for basically nothing, sounds pretty stupid. Another thing why would someone give up a form of protection, in a murder state like cali, also sounds stupid.

But hey thats gotta help their gang problem right.

[Tronster]

This reminded me of a Seattle gun buyback giving out gift cards and people sat outside the gun buyback paying cash for guns.

[darkwolf45]

Saw that last year. Some ijit turned in his grandpa's WWII 1911 to get melted into some artwork.

Speaks rather poorly of the knowledge of the priviliged few who can own guns to look at something historical like that and think it's best to melt it down. I guess the plan is that in the future, museums will not have anything like displayed and and photos or paintings showing guns will be edited so the firearms are replaced with walkie talkies.

[xd ED]

LAPD and Artist Turn Guns into Mushy Art (2012)

You ever wonder what the police does with all of those guns they get from the buyback program? Evidently, they give them to artists like Victor Hugo Zayas (or this lady) so that they can turn them into works of art. Move over, Mona Lisa, because “Mushy Guns Shaped Like a Ball of Yarn” is here to stay!

Zayas has created 17 gun art sculptures, which he viewed as a positive experience. “The idea is that this group of sculptures should become a kind of peace symbol, because transforming something so negative into something so positive, well, people connect with that immediately.”

Zayas dedicated one of his pieces, a sculpture created out of 200 dismantled weapons that weighs 300 pounds, to a friend of his, Efrain Castro, who was murdered (by blunt force trauma to the head, not a gun shot). There is currently no word as to whether or not Zayas will also create sculptures of melted-down baseball bats and crowbars.

[Stylin750]

LAPD and Artist Turn Guns into Mushy Art (2012)

You ever wonder what the police does with all of those guns they get from the buyback program? Evidently, they give them to artists like Victor Hugo Zayas (or this lady) so that they can turn them into works of art. Move over, Mona Lisa, because “Mushy Guns Shaped Like a Ball of Yarn” is here to stay!

Zayas has created 17 gun art sculptures, which he viewed as a positive experience. “The idea is that this group of sculptures should become a kind of peace symbol, because transforming something so negative into something so positive, well, people connect with that immediately.”

Zayas dedicated one of his pieces, a sculpture created out of 200 dismantled weapons that weighs 300 pounds, to a friend of his, Efrain Castro, who was murdered (by blunt force trauma to the head, not a gun shot). There is currently no word as to whether or not Zayas will also create sculptures of melted-down baseball bats and crowbars.

Id rather have the firearms. The 200 hundred firearms are far more valuable and much better purpose, then that hippie artists piece of crap sculpture.

[xd ED]

This reminded me of a Seattle gun buyback giving out gift cards and people sat outside the gun buyback paying cash for guns.

Best one I heard of was a rifle cub in Illinois that scraped together a bunch of worthless junk, turned it in at a buyback for $100 gift cards...and funded the purchase of some target rifles/ ammo

Chicago gun buyback unknowingly raises money for NRA kids' gun camp