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From Arms to Farms - Indian State Plans to Melt Guns Into Garden Tools

9 November 2011

BBC News

PATNA, Bihar - Police in the northern Indian state of Bihar have come up with an original way to deal with the surfeit of seized illegal firearms that are stored in police station storehouses, or malkhanas. They have decided to melt the weapons down into farming and gardening tools. "The weapons stashed in police station malkhanas are of no use once the legal process of the case is over. They stink like dead bodies," says Abhyanand, the Bihar police chief who has... (GunPolicy.org)

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