Arms & Armour (Shop on Lordship Lane)

[Bleep]

Has anyone ever been in there? Has anyone ever seen anyone in there?

[Ant]

No and no. I did see someone peering through the window once. They looked confused.

[SeanMacGabhann]

And they've had a spruce up on the exterior... I had a neighbour who was heavily into guns but even he never mentioned this place

Reminds me of the AmmuNation stores in Grand Theft Auto

[snorky]

Its a bit Mikey Ryan isnt it ?

Repulses me/ Attracts me

but ive never been in.

Mrs Snorky may not take kindly to a Bren gun being the new "parlour" talking point

[nutty]

Isn't it called "Target Arms"?

[Ant]

I think it is.

[Brendan]

I think they sell old school armor and military uniforms to collectors and replica stuff to people who reenact battles. I once went in for a butchers and got a dirty look from the guy behind the counter.

[Ted Max]

Only two schoolkids at a time, though! Always makes me chuckle, that.

[citizenED]

I've walked past umpteen times -never been in, never seen anyone braving it.

citizen

[LostThePlot]

Quite Interesting, if you like that sort of thing...

Been in "Just having a look" but it's one of those places, like a builders yard, or an operating theatre, that unless you fully understand the language, and it's relavence to what's on display you are made to feel as welcome as a fart in a space suit...

[Dannyboy]

I've been trying to persuade work that I really _need_ a deactivated SMLE, gas mask and tin helmet to use as learning aids in my Great War seminar. When I win that argument, I'll go in.

[david_carnell]

They have a website. Looks like they have some wierd stuff. Anyone seen Falling Down with Michael Douglas when he goes in the army surplus store and the guy has swastika flags and grenades in the basement?....only in LL....sorry LA.

[Brendan]

Or the army surplus store in Pulp Fiction.

[Louisa]

Many years ago, a chap used to go in their to buy Nazi uniforms a friend of mine told me. I found this rather odd at the same. I have een helmets as I peer through the window, but have never seen a visible Nazi uniform.

[*Bob*]

The Nazi stuff is all down in the basement. With the gimp.

[spadetownboy]

nice website ,i want a luger for christmas now.

[Jonboy]

maybe we should all tool up with MP44s and take over Camberwell, dressed as Stormtroopers.

[SummerLightning]

"SS Reels of Cotton all wrapped in RZM Label. All colours but not much black left. ?3.00"

I almost spat my tea out...

[Mark]

I was rather happy to note they they have A.K.47 Cleaning Kits for the bargain price of ?12, especially as my kit's just about to come to the end of it's useful life.

[ChavWivaLawDegree]

I never knew this place existed. I might have to go and have a gander, but it's all old guns on the website. I want a nice cute little Uzi - deactivated of course.

[SeanMacGabhann]

SummerLightning said:

"SS Reels of Cotton all wrapped in RZM Label. All colours but not much black left. ?3.00"

I almost spat my tea out...

I genuinely love it when a first post makes me smile...

[spadetownboy]

its the tins of bully beef that got me bbf 09.no thanks.

[mockney piers]

At a recent wedding, the proprietor of the venue had a basement office full of tin soldiers, remnants from the old tin soldier business he used to have in Elephant & Castle. Apparently a lot of odd people or kids of veterans with wartime memorabilia would pop in with stuff for sale.

He showed me some of his special favourites, the bullet from Gettysburg and Mussolini's toilet paper, but my eye couldn't help but stray towards SS lapels, little swastika flags and so forth. I have to say that I did have that cold sweat Falling Down moment.

I was most relieved to make it out of there into the light of day.

[DaveR]

There is a gift shop at the site of the tomb of mussolini in Predappio, where you can get all sorts of stuff

I was tempted by a T shirt with "Meglio di vivere un giorno da leone che cento anni da pecora" (better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep) but all the cash goes to the fascist party, so I resisted

[Louisa]

I went to the Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp on the eastern side of Berlin many years ago, and was shocked to see a gift shop and restaurant/cafe serving up sausages and beer! I was not amused at the time, but I guess it goes to show that the German people have moved on so much.