Guns to Gardens

In Columbia, a disarmament initiative is taking seized or surrendered firearms and transforming them into garden tools and works of art. The project aims to give weapons a peaceful second life while drawing attention to gun violence and encouraging people to give up their firearms. Residents are watching the transformation of instruments of harm into objects of growth and creativity.

A Richland County event will take more than 65 unwanted guns and transform them into garden tools and art pieces. The gathering invites residents to hand in firearms they no longer want, with the weapons then repurposed rather than destroyed. Organisers frame it as a way to reduce the number of unwanted guns in homes while creating something useful and symbolic from them, and the initiative is drawing local attention in South Carolina.

A Guns to Gardens event in Richland County, South Carolina invited residents to surrender unwanted firearms to be converted into gardening tools. The buyback-style program frames gun disposal as a community safety effort with a practical, symbolic twist, with local coverage highlighting the transformation of weapons into implements for the garden.

More than 20 unwanted firearms were safely dismantled at a 'Guns to Gardens' event in Lancaster. The initiative invites people to turn in guns, which are then taken apart, with the idea of converting weapons into garden tools. Organizers say the event offers residents a safe, anonymous way to remove firearms from their homes.