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Hi there,

I would love to know about gun stores in Africa, as I'm curious about what guns they got and their prices and whether they got local
products. Either, e-mail or websites would be very well appreciated.

I found some in RSA but not even one in any other country in all the continent.

I hope you could help me!
 
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I have been in two gunshops cant remember their names as they both were rather basic.


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Basically there aren't any retail arms dealers outside of the Anglophone countries of Southern Africa. You will find in a few Francophone countries a "gun" store with .22lr and 12 gauge cartridges and maybe from time to time a Russian shotgun or maybe a Czech rifle in 22lr, outside of their airgun line. Africa is a wasteland for both working and fine guns. South Africa, perhaps Namibia, are the exceptions.


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First of all, thank you for your replies!

To begin with, whatever they have is what I'm looking for, so those basic stores are what I want to know about. Although it would be helpful to be able to visit (e-mail / websites) those sources in RSA and Namibia Wink mentioned before.

I didn't knew they produced air guns, what brands are being manufatured over there?

I'm not planning to spent my vacations there visiting small gunstores, but I would love to talk (e-mail...) and see (websites) what they offer. It's more a curiosity of mine than anything else.

Have fun y'all!
 
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Perhaps this link will be of some help.

http://www.ananzi.co.za/cgi-bin/ananzi/ananzi-apisearch...sasites&rq=0&x=0&y=0


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I have been into shops in SA and some have quite a few rifles (50+) however now that the gun laws have changed many shops are going out of business. It takes several years for a SA Resident to get the necessary permits to buy a gun now and they are limited to how many they can own. Last year while there I noteced that there were a lot of guns for sale from private owners and some were at very good prices. I guess they were trying to sell them prior to having to turn them into the police to be destroyed.


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Thank you! Fortunately, there is plenty of info about SA about their RKBA, ... I think that's the only african country with such data available (gun stores, shooters, ...).

On the other side, I found virtually no information of countries I thought where developed (Morocco, Lybia, Ghana ...).
 
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I believe there is one gunshop left in Nairobi; owned by an Indian. Would anybody have more specific information on Kenya?

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Hi,

In Nairobi they are three gun shops one belongs to a white kenynan the other two belong to indians.

In Dar essalaam they are two known companies one is tanganyika arms and another is Mzinga.


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Dear hamdeni, did you get any more information about the stores you previously quoted? Like e-mails, websites, company names, ... Thank you anyway.
 
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Startwithya,

The names in kenya are Guns&Camera,Armatec,and walimohammad and sons.
The names of Tz shops are in my last post.

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Unfortunately I was unable to find a website or e-mail from those companies, except for Tanganyika Arms. Which I e-mailed but got no reply.
 
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Thank you very much, Hamdeni! Your kind information is most welcome.

I can now add at least one address, in two variants:

Armatech Kenya Limited, Dealers in Firearms Ammunition & Accessories, P.O.Box 79696, Nairobi
Tel: + 254-2-243 845, Fax: + 254-2-229 380, E-mail: Armatech@form-net.com

Armatech Kenya Ltd
Activity: Fire Arms
Location/Building: Utalii House
Street: Uhuru Highway
City/Town: Nairobi
Postal code: 00200
PO Box: 79696
Phone number(s): 020 243845, 243568
Fax number(s): 020 229380
Contact person: Pili Jhite
Title: Managing Director

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I went to this shop in May 04 and it was as good a shop as you would want.
http://www.sabirifles.co.za/Default.htm


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