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  • smle-man
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Jan 2007
    • 10580

    Seen at a surplus store recently

    Saw these at a New England surplus/junk store recently. The items hanging from the ceiling look to have been there a long, long time.

    Can anyone ID make and model of the mortar?

    Only college age kids were working in the store so there was no point talking to them about the stuff. There were some other arms attached to the walls such as a Steyr 95 carbine and what looked to be a Bannermann 03. The store has been in that building for a long time.

    There could have been more but the store was closing and the wife wanted to go.






    Lathi 20mm AT rifle



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    The Gleam
    I need a LIFE!!
    • Feb 2011
    • 12301

    Very cool... but what's with the red fuzzy Tickle-Me-Elmo costume?

    Love surplus stores - well, used to anyway. They often aren't much like what they used to be and many in CA have dissapeared or have morphed into being more like thrift stores.

    Decades ago, I used to stop at Surplus stores in the mid-West and they often had various surplus gun parts and related equipment from WWII to current; stocks, handguards, magazines, links, stripper-clips, ammo cans, cases, scopes, barrels, tri-pods for various Browning MGs and M2H2s, etc., often unissued or still in wraps - even if they didn't sell guns or ammo. All pennies on the dollar.

    Miss that: of course CA killed the ability to sell a lot of that stuff, like mags which were inevitably high-cap or grenade housings and launchers.

    I also notice now that a lot of what Army/Navy surplus stores sell are "look-a-like" surplus, not the real thing, such as Pea-Coats or other things like hats, jackets, gloves, etc. - flimsy, cheap look-a-likes all made in China.

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    Last edited by The Gleam; 10-03-2021, 3:12 AM.
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    Originally posted by Librarian
    What compelling interest has any level of government in knowing what guns are owned by civilians? (Those owned by government should be inventoried and tracked, for exactly the same reasons computers and desks and chairs are tracked: responsible care of public property.)

    If some level of government had that information, what would they do with it? How would having that info benefit public safety? How would it benefit law enforcement?

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    • #4
      echo1
      Veteran Member
      • Apr 2010
      • 3862

      One word, pickle barrels...OK 2 words. PAX
      You need a crew

      "A free people should be armed and disciplined" (George Washington),

      Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.~John Adams 1798

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      • #5
        pitfighter
        Veteran Member
        • Jul 2009
        • 3141

        Steyr Solothurn 20mm and BAR classroom over size, I believe, don't know about mortars.
        Pitfighter.
        CA/AZ

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          Dan_Eastvale
          I need a LIFE!!
          • Apr 2013
          • 10117

          Barrels filled with M1 Carbines and mags in SoCal surplus stores as a kid.

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          • #7
            Kokopelli
            Veteran Member
            • Sep 2008
            • 3388

            Originally posted by Dan_Eastvale
            Barrels filled with M1 Carbines and mags in SoCal surplus stores as a kid.
            Western Surplus in North Hollywood. Racks of surplus Mausers. All under $100. 8X57, 7X57, 7.65X53, you pick. Plenty of ammo for them, too.
            If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. - Ronald Reagan

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            • #8
              Jess B. Guy
              Senior Member
              • Jul 2011
              • 627

              That cutaway BAR is friggen gorgeous. I'd buy it in a heartbeat!

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                smle-man
                I need a LIFE!!
                • Jan 2007
                • 10580

                Originally posted by Jess B. Guy
                That cutaway BAR is friggen gorgeous. I'd buy it in a heartbeat!
                The oversize training cutaways were a staple for surplus stores for decades until collectors bought them all up. I've only seen M1 rifles and BARs but I imagine all of them were made during WW2.

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                  pitfighter
                  Veteran Member
                  • Jul 2009
                  • 3141

                  Originally posted by smle-man
                  The oversize training cutaways were a staple for surplus stores for decades until collectors bought them all up. I've only seen M1 rifles and BARs but I imagine all of them were made during WW2.
                  Carbine and 1919 MG too.

                  For a while Joel Silver had the oversized training 1919 machine gun behind his reception desk at his Warners office.
                  Pitfighter.
                  CA/AZ

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                  • #11
                    louie
                    Senior Member
                    • Jul 2009
                    • 1028

                    They used to sell those Steyr 20mm guns in Hollywood, yes Hollywood for $179. The ammo was 1.00 a round, and could only buy ammo if you bought the gun. They would allow you to put it on layaway. I would have bought one if I wasn't 12 years old and had a little more money. Again this is before CA lost it's mind and was a normal state. 1963 more or less was the time. And the guns were basically new.

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                    • #12
                      pitfighter
                      Veteran Member
                      • Jul 2009
                      • 3141

                      Originally posted by louie
                      They used to sell those Steyr 20mm guns in Hollywood, yes Hollywood for $179. The ammo was 1.00 a round, and could only buy ammo if you bought the gun. They would allow you to put it on layaway. I would have bought one if I wasn't 12 years old and had a little more money. Again this is before CA lost it's mind and was a normal state. 1963 more or less was the time. And the guns were basically new.


                      See the address!

                      I think the one in the OP's pic is not a Solothurn, but they are design
                      Pitfighter.
                      CA/AZ

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                      • #13
                        sbo80
                        Senior Member
                        • Apr 2014
                        • 2264

                        Ian (forgotten weapons) has a great little video on the Lahti. That's amazing to have one just hanging. Even a de-milled/non firing one would probably be expensive. Wish someone would show some respect and wipe the dust off, geez.

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                        • #14
                          Wheellock
                          Senior Member
                          • Dec 2019
                          • 1112

                          Originally posted by louie
                          They used to sell those Steyr 20mm guns in Hollywood, yes Hollywood for $179. The ammo was 1.00 a round, and could only buy ammo if you bought the gun. They would allow you to put it on layaway. I would have bought one if I wasn't 12 years old and had a little more money. Again this is before CA lost it's mind and was a normal state. 1963 more or less was the time. And the guns were basically new.
                          You didn't even need a tax stamp for them back then.....I wasn't alive, so I can only dream of those days. A 20 mm would be fun for a coffee table conversation piece and occasional range trip.

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                            smle-man
                            I need a LIFE!!
                            • Jan 2007
                            • 10580

                            Originally posted by sbo80
                            Ian (forgotten weapons) has a great little video on the Lahti. That's amazing to have one just hanging. Even a de-milled/non firing one would probably be expensive. Wish someone would show some respect and wipe the dust off, geez.
                            Given the state that the store is in, the owner needs to hope it remains unnoticed by the authorities.

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