Philly blacksmith Shane Claiborne and artist Jacob "Chris" Hammes are forging guns into gardening tools, bullet barrels into benches and closed minds into open hearts. Why it matters: The duo teamed ...

Outside Augustana Lutheran Church in Northeast Portland, a rifle barrel was heated in a forge, hammered into a new shape and transformed into a garden tool. Two authors of the book “Beating Guns” ...

A rifle’s barrel is very important. It has a great deal to do with the precision a rifle can deliver. It contributes to the overall length, weight, and balance of the rifle, and to muzzle velocity as ...