Artsy Zip Guns
Every so often I get an email from
a conceptual artist who is obsessed with the artistic merit of putting a gun on
display. Rarely do they exhibit beautiful guns, but instead poorly made, badly
modified or kitschy blinged out guns. My theory is that eventually conceptual
artists eventually run out of metaphors for genetalia and need to find the next
thing to shock the public. The artsy crowd is apparently easily shocked by guns
sitting inside locked glass display cases.
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One artist, Tom Sachs, claims to
have made guns not for their artistic metric but for profit. After realizing
guns could be made easily and cheaply, he run a small manufacturing racket
producing functional zip guns to sell to a New York City gun buyback program for
up to $300 a piece.
These are a few of the guns he has
displayed …
Hand
Gun, .45 Caliber, Breech-loading, Handmade
Shotgun, 12
Guage, Breech-Loading, Handmade
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