Mexican Sculptor Turns Weapons Into Musical Instruments

City officials in the embattled Ciudad Juarez, just south of the Mexican border from El Paso, recently turned over a large cache of confiscated weapon parts to artist Pedro Reyes in order to provide the raw materials for his latest project – Imagine.City officials in the embattled Ciudad Juarez, just south of the Mexican border from El Paso, recently turned over a large cache of confiscated weapon parts to artist Pedro Reyes in order to provide the raw materials for his latest project – Imagine. The project resulted in a one-of-a-kind collection of instruments built from the skeletal frames of handguns, shotgun barrels, and magazines of ammunition.  Reyes calls for an end to ongoing violence in Mexico and the industry that supports the sales of illegal guns.

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