These teens are turning guns into gardening tools

July 25, 2019 / 12:59 pm

1 of 5Nick Oyoghok, 17, forges the barrel of a 22-gauge shotgun into a mattock gardening tool with the help of Brian Hewitt, right, on Tuesday, July 23, 2019, at Choose 180 in Burien.

Credit: KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer

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The blacksmithing project is part of a Burien summer program for at-risk youth run by the organization Choose 180.

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Ann is a reporter on KUOW's Investigations Team. Previously, she covered education stories for KUOW for a decade, with a focus on investigations into racial and socioeconomic inequities.
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