Louisville residents trade in their guns to be turned into garden tools, art
Updated: 10:18 PM EDT Jun 8, 2025
A local organization is working to reduce gun violence in Louisville, one weapon at a time.On Sunday, Guns to Gardens hosted a safe-surrender event at the All Peoples Unitarian Church on Brownsboro Road.The event gave people a chance to turn in unwanted firearms with no questions asked.From there, the Guns to Gardens team records the serial number, disables the weapon, and then saws the gun into pieces that are then used to make tools, art, and jewelry.”We’re taking weapons and instruments of death and destruction and transforming them into something beautiful and creative and useful and good for the world,” said Eva Stimson, a board member for Guns to Gardens Louisville.As of Sunday evening, at least 18 guns had been surrendered.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. —
A local organization is working to reduce gun violence in Louisville, one weapon at a time.
On Sunday, Guns to Gardens hosted a safe-surrender event at the All Peoples Unitarian Church on Brownsboro Road.
The event gave people a chance to turn in unwanted firearms with no questions asked.
From there, the Guns to Gardens team records the serial number, disables the weapon, and then saws the gun into pieces that are then used to make tools, art, and jewelry.
“We’re taking weapons and instruments of death and destruction and transforming them into something beautiful and creative and useful and good for the world,” said Eva Stimson, a board member for Guns to Gardens Louisville.
As of Sunday evening, at least 18 guns had been surrendered.