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Guns have provided an unusual story in this issue of
wiredInUSA. More than 4,600 weapons from 12 law
enforcement agencies in the Los Angeles county
sheriff's department have been melted down as part of
the 21
st
annual Gun Melt event, held throughout August,
with the metal being used for the country's infrastructure
projects.
The event is staged at the Gerdau Steel Mill in Rancho
Cucamonga after gun owners anonymously hand
over weapons in return for gift cards under the Gifts for
Guns program. Since the event was first staged, the
department has melted down 178,167 weapons! Full
details of this year's event can be found on page 9.
Wire and art have gone hand in hand through the
years, and now Chinese artist Zhou Jie is taking it to
the extreme by spending 36 days in an art gallery, and
sleeping on an iron wire bed. Visitors to Beijing's Art
Now Gallery will be able to see Zhou sleeping, eating,
washing, using her mobile phone and weaving plush
toy' shapes from iron wire during the exhibition, which
runs until 13
th
September. Catch a glimpse on page 37.
David Bell
Editor
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