INDIANAPOLIS (Mirror Indy)-After his father died 12 years ago, Rik Spier inherited a hunting rifle.
The 75-year-old from the northwest side didn’t know anything about guns. “I was handling it totally ignorant,” Spier said. “My son-in-law found two bullets I didn’t even know were there.”
To learn, Spier took lessons and went to a gun show. But, ultimately, he still wanted to get rid of the weapon: “You don’t want it to fall into the wrong hands. It’s very easy to have an accident.”
Now, Spier’s rifle will be softened and molded into something else. It was one of two dozen guns collected by volunteers at Allisonville Christian Church on Sept. 19. The weapons were broken down into pieces and collected by a blacksmith, who will use their spines to create new cookware, art and garden tools…