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Posted on 08/23/2025 4:33:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Metalworking projects are turning an object of death into something full of life that sustains life in New Mexico, advocates say.
Gardening tools, musical instrumentals, bug sculptures – all of the metal for these projects comes from gun buyback events. People get cash or something of cash value when they turn in their guns, which are dismantled into that metal.
“Two years ago, in honor of two students that they lost last year to gun violence, they actually made a working electric guitar and a working xylophone,” said Miranda Viscoli, executive director of New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence.
Viscoli’s organization is behind the buybacks. They partnered with the metal shop at Robert F. Kennedy Charter School a few years ago to put the scrap metal to good use.
“It’s not simply taking an object that was designed to kill and turning into something that sustains life. It gives our young people an opportunity to also have a conversation about it and also to think about what are the causes of gun violence? How do we prevent gun violence?” Viscoli said.
Cristian Mercado, an 11th grader, is mostly in the program to sharpen his skills – but he knows these projects are helping the community too.
“It helps take guns up the street and show other people what you could do with these types of weapons,” Mercado said.
Viscoli added students are planning to build a full-sized room made out of gun parts. They’ll need as much metal as they can get from the next buyback, scheduled for Aug. 23.
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Geezum Crow
Metal working like this? ;^)
Double Barf
I’m for teaching younger people metalworking, there must be another way.
Can't even get their cliches right.
How many rounds fit in the neck of that gituar?
How can one “buy back” something that they didn’t own in the first place…
Sigh. They were never the gubmint’s guns to begin with so there’s no “buy back.” F’ing liberals.
It sounds like an idea in a middle school project.
That’s not very nice to mother earth with all that extra carbon to melt down and work the metal.
What do they do with the crap castings and plastic? Landfill.
Gun “Buyback”. A term reserved used by idiots and liars.
I’m recalled pi** ed that my tax dollars are being used to try and destroy the 2nd amendment. Remember there is no such thing as a “gun buy back” because the government b never owned the guns. So they are also trying to convince us that they are the rightful owners.
What ever became of making Bowie knives in shop class from tool steel?
ROTFL! Ban some ammunition and we may be able to cure toe jam in New Metsico.
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