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Volunteers are taking apart firearms and forging the metal into garden tools and works of art in a community project covered by local news. The initiative converts instruments of violence into objects of everyday use, and the story is being shared as an example of creative gun-violence prevention work.

Volunteers gathered at Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma to take part in a cleanup effort marking National Public Lands Day, a nationwide day of service for public lands. The event, covered by KSWO 7News, highlighted community efforts to keep the refuge's trails, prairies and wildlife habitat clear of litter. Similar volunteer events were held at public sites across the country on the same day.