Jewelry designer Philip Crangi has teamed up with the creators of Ethos Water, Peter Thum and John Zapolski, to create Fonderie 47, a company that aims to reduce Africa’s 20 million assault weapons by turning the guns’ metal into jewelry. The endeavor has already helped remove more than 5000 AK-47s from the Congo. Each steel and gold signet ring finances the destruction of more than 75 guns and is etched with the serial number of the gun it once was. Is this social entrepreneurism too violently literal, or creatively humanitarian?

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