What do you do with a firearm you no longer want? A local offshoot of a national campaign has a suggestion.
Emily Bruno is an elder at Tallahassee's First Presbyterian Church. She's also a lead organizer for the "Guns to Gardens" effort. She says people who have unwanted guns can bring them - unloaded - to Good Shepherd Catholic Church on Saturday from 10 a.m. until noon. Trained volunteers, supervised by sheriff's personnel, will turn them over to on-site choppers.
"The chop operators will make cuts in the gun according to ATF standards to dismantle it. And then they will be asked to donate those pieces to us. We'll be collecting the dismantled pieces and at a later date, we'll deliver them to a local blacksmith who will help us forge them into garden tools.
The bible speaks of "beating swords into ploughshares." Guns to Gardens aims to turn rifles into rakes and pistols into pruning hooks.
