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New York Campaigner Turns Illegal Guns Into Art, Has Global Ambitions
19 December 2008
Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK — The artist Lin Evola-Smidt lives these days in Manhattan, but she is fond of saying that her sculpting career really began 3,000 miles and a world away. This was back in the early 1990s, when Los Angeles murder rates were among the highest in the country and local authorities struggled to tamp down illegal gun sales. Ms. Evola-Smidt followed the news from her San Francisco home with a growing sense of dread. Her son, Jason, was 8 at the time. What kind of... (GunPolicy.org)