Looks like a waste of money, to me.

I like a good gun as much as the next guy, but come on, guys. These things are made out of pieces of AKs. Those things are as common as rain.

Isaiah II (King James Version):

“They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.”

I’d so buy it.

Waste of guns. But hey, not my gun.

Regarding John, who commented “but the less assault rifles there are in 3rd world countries the better off we all are.”

In many cases, especially RIGHT NOW in some portions of Africa, a population is disarmed, with all the blessings of the UN and the rest, and then killed off. As of late, while the army watches with its machineguns ready for the resistance, a favored weapon has been the machete, since it’s cheap and doesn’t require reloading.

If the populations were armed, they’d at least have a chance.

In many areas, rather than air-dropping food for the bad guys to take at gunpoint, why not drop AK-47s? Give the people a chance to defend themselves. Then drop the food.

NEVER condone racism or genocide because you think you are being “nice.”

If the victims of the Khmer Rouge had been adequately armed, they would not have been victims. Now, what’s more noble, in your frame of reference? A living family, or dead victims bulldozed under?

Oh, and by the way… I’m a “working artist.” Actually make a living at it. Of course, those who are subsisting on trust funds or borrowing money from their friends until they get their next “grant” will deride that…

I suppose we should go back to the days of hacking eachother to pieces with swords and battle axes. At least with guns you have the chance of a quick, painless death. Fewer guns does not equal fewer killings, anyone who thinks it does is just plain ignorant. By the way, this message is for the anti-gun nuts that have posted here, not for the artists. I’m not a gun-nut or an anti-gun nut, just a neutral realist. I like the art though and would love to own one of those couches.

Oh my god, they are taking away OUR guns and turning them into furniture?!? AUGH, I’ll be ready to gun you down with my GS-355 when you kick in my door, you durned furniture-making commu, err, terorists!

Seriously, kids, you talk like these were weapons stolen from freedumb loving, God-fearing, UnitedStatesians (what DO they call you guys?), and you talk like they were in good shape. They’re probably 40 years old and were resident in every tunnel in North Vietnam. Mind you, a Kalashnikov could hold up to that, unlike any Norteamericano M-16… but still.

And yes, I would get one of these for my brother next X-mas… he’ll love it, but he probably won’t get the point.

These guns could have been put to better use.

Interesting idea.

It’s sad to see beautiful AKs go to waste to make a single chair. I can only hope they were already cut apart.

I think there’s only one ‘guns are awesome’ guy out there and he just keeps posting under different names.

They were put to good use at one time … all part of natural selection now old pieces of junk they should have been melted and sold as plain steel, most likely never shot and only dropped once

IMHO, they don’t look too comfy… Plus, the thoughts of the innocent blood shed… However, being a modest afficianado of “trench art” (the genre to which this sort of thing actually belongs), I do own a rather cool floor lamp which I put togther using a pre-1898 Mauser wallhanger that I picked up on a whim at the Creek… Given the vintage, it _might_ have been used against my grandfather in the war to end all wars, but hey… it was the weapons of mass destruction that finally killed him 15 years after he came home…

I equate this furniture with umbrella holders made from elephant feet – regretable curiousities and artifacts of history…

As far as an Art statement, they are great. As for furniture, they would be horrendous. For anyone whose ever carried a weapon for a long period of time you begin to hate all the little sharp pieces jutting out of it. This furniture is like a horror show poking design!

I like firearms. I own, carry & shoot firearms responsibly. They are simply a tool not something to be worshipped or reviled.

RE: We proudly call ourselves Americans.

the only thing wrong with these chairs is that there isn’t a dead a-rab in the picture

you son of a bitch, tony. i will slit the throats of your family with the will of allah- allallalallalallalalalal chim chim chariy

i got a gun the size of an infants arm. any ladies in here want to have cyber sex? 18 and older, please= oh, and no blacks.

The thing that most of the posters here don’t appear to comprehend is that these are from CAMBODIA. Thats right, Cambodia, where Pol Pot’s forces needed enough guns to create “killing fields” in which millions of people were executed by barrages of fire from AKs. In the United States where (aparrently) many of the posters live I would agree that such weapons could have been legally sold to dealers or put to some other use, but in that part of the world these weapons are so plentiful that they sell for somewhere between $20 and $30. In such a case, I think its simple economics; it is far cheaper to obtain decent quality metal by buying AKs than it is by buying from a commercial producer. Get your heads out of the U.S. for a second and realize that the way it is here isn’t the way it is all over the world. Think about how many AKs are left over from the Vietnam War alone, much less all of the internal conflicts in that area since the 60′s-70′s. Our standards don’t apply.

You realize the british re-invasion plan is cancelled right?
That’s right. The redcoats are NOT COMING.

Besides, there’s a nearly neverending supply of AKs out there anyway.

Amazing how many people feel so passionate one way or another about these items – that reflects well on the artist.

These are really interesting pieces – old guns make for good building material – strong and straight.

as far as wasting guns, I don’t think there is any shortage of mass producted, stamped steel AK 47′s. I’m a big fan of guns too but these are no Walthers or SiG works of art.

As far as feeling guilty looking at them…get a life.

You’re all missing the point. The GOVERNMENT seized these guns after 30 years of civil war. That means the revolutionaries lost, right? The rebellion failed, and the bad guys won and “peace” was achieved…at what price?

I can’t believe my own eyes. AK-47s are “the vehicle that keeps us free”, “a gun you could use to defend your life or liberty with” – are you Americans so narrow-minded?

Don’t get me wrong, I love guns like any other guy, but coming as I do from the other side of (former) Iron Curtain, I have slightly less romantic view on these weapons. AK-47s are not guns that you keep at home, clean and oil, show off to friends and once in a month take out to shooting range. You give an AK-47 to some poor, uneducated, 17-year old conscript and order him to go somewhere and kill some other poor, uneducated, 17-yer old conscrip (in best scenario – more probably, to kill some farmer, his wife and kids). AK-47s are simple, brutal tools used to kill people like you. Get a life and notice there is a whole different world out there.

People are so stupid. Now a great deal of people are going to be killed with rusty knives and spears. I agree, war and killing is bad, but taking people’s ability to defend themselves away is not the answer.

I also agree that this is the largest waste of firearms I’ve ever seen. And no serious gun owner would ever own one of those because it would break his heart to see guns destroyed.

IF this is ART, then I hate art.

as far as i know guns were invented for wartime use. not for hunting or target practice or friendly debates. while they may have all these uses now, how can it be said that guns are not ¨weapons of death and destruction¨? i like firing guns, its a skill to learn, but not when it involves someone else does anyone truely want to be involved in such a situation? Then why do we have guns, massive stockpiles of them, new ones every year?

side note …on a scale of 1 (not interested) till 5 (all outa bubblegum), how many of u would be interested in ¨war tourism¨? full package deal including lodging, ¨taste the gunpowder¨…skittles not included, no guarentees

what does this say about us? thousands of years of ¨civilization¨ and i would like to think we´ve learnt something along the way, are not our god’given hands (natural selection, whatever) enough? where does the evolution of the killing machine end? it wont will it? does anyone know if it would actualy be proffitable to smelt AKs down en-mass and resell the metal at a lower tha average price?

I don’t think I’d want the furniture, but the art pieces are neat.

With that said, my guns will not be becoming artwork anytime soon. For one they cost too much, and second I like them too much.

Oh yeah, also, the table is cool, but the only thing that would have been nicer is if the table-top had been made of shell casings glued together and turned primer side up (for a flat surface).

I like the art. Why do you gun freaks care that the artist used guns? Your guns were not used so chill out!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOW! You need a real job. My god…. I have lost all hope in humanity. An UZI jew candle stick. Thats bad.

Sheeple. Those who choose to bury their heads in the sand, put their faith in their government and sing “peace in our times” are bound to reap the servitude they deserve and should pray/hope their govt doesn’t find them desirably expendable. That said my guess is that many of those pieces won’t be importable into the US because of improperly demilled AK receivers. Technically they need to be submitted to the ATF for review before they can come in.

Making these innocent tools into vicious chairs that could be used to sit someone to death.

Let’s just ban bullets.

Guns dont kill people.
Gun owners do.

I’d rather just sit on a snazzy gun chair.

All those of you who think this is a waste are missing the point.

Besides, how bad-ass would you look holding your guns, while sitting on a gun chair?!

I like to sit.
I like guns.
It would only make sense to combine these two.

Cant sit on my revolver though cause the hammer pinches.

For what it’s worth, don’t try to hunt deer with a coffee table – I did, and the deer are way too fast.

Absolutely brilliant!!

Make furnishings out of bones the deceased… that would be tasteful while simultaneously thought provoking and artistic. Think about it. Muhahaha…

Somehow, I don’t think 100,000+ aging, poorly maintained AKs stockpiled in southeast asia were going to help preserve anyone’s liberty.

I like weapons as much as the next guy, but seriously, they’re just tools; theres no need to sanctify them. If you had a stack of a couple hundred thousand hammers lying about, you might start to look for new things to do with hammers… and lets face it, a hammer is a whole lot more versatile than an assault rifle.

Disgusting, gun owners don’t kill people. Criminals kill people. And then the police show up to attempt to figure out who the murderer is, arrest them, and hopefully put them away for more than 8 years. Because alot of murderers serve 8 to 10 with good behavior. I wish you a good and lucky life.

>Weapons should be completely melted and not remind us of any weapons at all.

Well, I suppose it is more artistic than the crap that gets passed off as “modern art” such as splashes and splotches of paint on a wall-sized canvas. At least with this “art” you can actually tell what it is supposed to be.

I do think these would make for cool conversation pieces, however my La-Z-Boy is definitely more comfortable.

Wow, low art. Not even very well done and certainly not original.

Absolutely Brilliant! I want to buy up every piece and send them as gifts to Diane Fienstein, Hillary Clinton, Charles Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Carolyn McCarthy, Sarah Brady, John Kerry and everyone who works down at the Brady Campain.

Absolutely Brilliant!!!

I only want one if it can still fire.

Crunch all you want. We’ll make more!

muah hah hah hah hah!!!

Free men, need arms to protect themselves against this Utopian hippie bullshit government that some of you think has all the answers.

After the first one, they’re all free.

D.
AZEX

cool. I like guns and I like furniture so these are neat. Why all of the political comments? These are/were owned by Cambodia and they can do whatever they like with them. I guess southeast asia has more weapons than places to sit. I can’t imagine how unbelievably heavy those things must be though…

I can’t wait to place my first order. I’m going to put a bench on my front porch to deter seedy elements like guys named Trey.

This makes me sick. All those perfectly good rifles and pistols that could have been put to such good use, right here in the USA.

I like the gunorah

It’s not about hunting or target shooting.

It’s about history. And history yet to be written.

In countries like Somalia, Zimbabwe, Darfur and others.

When the people can defend themselves from tyrants, and don’t have to worry about tribal regimes starving them to death, they will have time for art.

How much of the artistic cultures are currently being lost in countries where “peacekeepers” are making things safe for the despots?

yes,awaste of weapons, they are needed to keep our freedom secure. I was in during viet nam and wish I was youger so I could and would gladly kill as many terrorists as I could.

Kinda cool, kinda like that guy’s wheelchair from Alien Resurrection. He makes a shotgun outta it to kill the Xenomorphs.

Just this, you could be sittin’ there, some home-invaders/bears/libtards/Persians/outlaws/zombies come bustin’ in the front door, all hell-bent on your destruction, you just grab parts off your chair, snap ‘em together, throw a magazine in, and let that bolt fly home.

*blam-blam-blam-blam-blam*

Guns are great.

“They shall beat their swords into plowshares…”

And plow for those that did not. I think I will keep my gun and forget the chair.

Most Americans do not feel the way the so-called “Americans” who post on message boards say we do.

America is disliked around the world for many reasons – and many of them are legitimate reasons – but most Americans are not the inbred, bible-thumping, beer-swilling, gun-o-philes who make idiotic and inflamatory remarks on these message boards. (The inbred, bible-thumping, beer-swilling gun-o-philes are just our politicians.)

In fact, if I wanted to really smear the reputation of a particular country, one of the best ways would be to impersonate a citizen of that country and act like a total asshat.

Just something to think about.

I laugh so hard at the American posts, trying in vain to display their misplaced pride, and complete ignorance.

Yes, my little stupid one, here’s a gun. Go ‘create some freedom’.
I lol’d.