Now a Louisville blacksmith is forging a new path for his city.

He's partnered with local churches and gun safety activists to steer the city away from gun violence and towards healing, peace and even gardening.

This is a barrel of a rifle that I'm going to be turning into a little hand hoe, and I've been using them in my garden and they're absolutely terrific guns.

The garden is a subcamp city of gun violence prevention team that takes guns and forges them into garden tools and other kinds of artwork.

Right now, it's people who no longer want the guns.

Some of the guns may have been suicides.

Some of them have been inherited.

The guns that people no longer want to own, nor do they want them being going back on the street.

It's hard to get rid of a gun in in Kentucky.

The state laws are such that if you do want to give turn over a gun to law enforcement, they're required by law to sell that gun at auction.

So then it's bought by a gun dealer who then turns it around and resells it to someone else.

And so there's no way to know what that person's intentions are for that gun.

And this is a way to just stop that cycle.

Well, you know, it's very you want to make something out of the guns and, you know, the biblical passage of turning swords into plowshares.

So this is a this is a religious metaphor for turning guns, which is, you would say, the modern day equivalent of swords and little hoes that are like plowshares that we're making.

We have out of control gun violence.

You can't be sure of going to the theater or going to a shopping mall or a parade and not be afraid of of gun violence.

I don't want to sit around and do nothing.

And fortunately, I have a skill that I can make a real contribution to this effort.

We host events of surrender events.

The guns are brought to the group.

And while the the owner is there, the guns are cut up right on the site.

So they're no longer a weapon anymore.

They're no longer going to hurt anyone else.

For some people, that is an amazing healing process to go through.

We collected 28 weapons the first time last December.

This time we had a little fewer weapons.

20.

But more people were coming.

So it's small in number perhaps, but it's big to us because we know that it's that many less guns that are out there in the world that potentially could harm someone.