Great stuff....I remember John Jovino's place in NYC. If I recall correctly, he was notorious for stamping Walther P38 with various Waffen proof marks.
A side note of trivia, the SevenUps lifted the entire sound track of Bullitt's race scene. Cheers.
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January 31, 2023, 11:32 AM
HRK
In an interesting twist, 2019 movie The Marksman, showcases Liam Neesem as a border protecting rancher, lost his wife and way, ends up taking an illegally crossing child who is the target of cartels on a road trip to Chicago.
Along the way he buys a gun in a small town store, of course explaining he needs a gun to protect them from the cartel.
Interesting enough the store they used was a record store, and after the movie, the sign for the Gun Store was still up and people were coming to see the location. So the owners now sell guns, what wasn't a gun store location became a gun store post filming.
The Store is in Wellington Ohio, which would have been nowhere on the way from Naco AZ to Chicago, but its a bucolic small town, fits the narrative
Originally posted by Pale Horse: Adventure Outdoors, an Atlanta area store, is in the TV show Ozark. It’s not necessary to watch the entire clip, after he leaves the store it’s not featured again.
For those of you who have never been there, the guns you see in the clip are probably only 15% of their inventory. It’s an old supermarket they converted to a store and range.
GA Firing Line, another ATL area shop, is in another TV show or movie but I can’t recall which. I know I’ve seen it though.
was standing in that spot just a few days ago after checking in a browning superposed that they've had for awhile.
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January 31, 2023, 06:00 PM
cas
I've posted before about The Survivors, with Robin Williams, Walter Matthau and Jerry Reed. Filmed at EDELMAN'S, well known to shooters in the Tri-state area in the 70's through the 90's. Owned by Leslie Edleman, now most famous/infamous for his involvement with Kimber. We went all the time as a kid, so I was really confused about why the store looked so different, decorated strangely, things moved around. Next trip in things were back to normal and never knew the reason till seeing the movie on cable a few years later.
Retting... one of the very first guns I bought online almost 25 years ago now (seems crazy that it's been that long), was from them off Gunbroker or Auction Arms.
January 31, 2023, 06:21 PM
urbanwarrior238
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Originally posted by parabellum: I have a 1963 vintage S&W Model 39 I purchased from Martin Retting years ago on Auction Arms.
Memories. I traded my Model 39 for a Marlin 30-30 maybe 30 years ago. Man I wish I still had that gun now.
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January 31, 2023, 06:29 PM
parabellum
My one and only Retting purchase. This is the photo they had on the auction. Pic is dated 2004. This is a nice 1963 pistol in great condition and with the correct early magazine.
January 31, 2023, 06:56 PM
SIGnified
Neat thread topic Para.
I’ll always enjoy your musings on film.
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January 31, 2023, 07:23 PM
Ronin101
I was in the Bullet Trap in Plano TX. It was the location for the gun range in Robocop
January 31, 2023, 11:40 PM
Modern Day Savage
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Originally posted by cmparrish: Alamo was a gun store in LA in the 80’s, but now it’s a used car dealership.
Check out this video of Terminator Shooting Location. The Alamo gun store is mentioned at the 3:36 mark.
Originally posted by V-Tail: At 2:23 in the clip that you posted, note Sarah's address: 14239.
Nice catch. What's ironic is that at the 1:49 mark, as the Terminator is going through the phone book, the wrong Sarah Connor's address (the one he is about to shoot) is listed as 309 Calder Cyn.
February 01, 2023, 12:05 AM
Modern Day Savage
I haven't seen this particular John Wayne movie yet, but I recall that another member posted this scene from McQ. Just from the movie clip it looks like it might be an actual gun store, but I'd be interested to hear from someone who knows.
Great thread! I was just googling this exact topic a few days ago. I was trying to find out if the gun shop in Rambo was real. Turn out it was filmed in Canada.
February 01, 2023, 10:24 AM
YooperSigs
The gun shop where Doc McCoy steals the shotgun in The Getaway (1972 version) is in Fabens, TX but I did not see the name anywhere.
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February 01, 2023, 10:40 AM
PASig
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Originally posted by cas: I've posted before about The Survivors, with Robin Williams, Walter Matthau and Jerry Reed. Filmed at EDELMAN'S, well known to shooters in the Tri-state area in the 70's through the 90's.
My dad used to take me to Edelman’s in Montgomeryville, PA in the 1980’s when I was a kid. I assume it was the same company, never realized it was a chain.
When you refer to “tri-state” area do you mean NY/NJ/PA? Looks like Edelman’s was HQ’d in NY?
When we here in PA refer to “tri-state” it means PA/NJ/DE
February 01, 2023, 03:16 PM
werzjon229
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Originally posted by parabellum: Sometime after the year 2000 (I think), Jovino's was sold and moved to 183 Grand Street in Manhattan. I just found out that this location was featured briefly in the 2007 film The Brave One starring Jodie Foster.
John Jovino's Gun Shop was the oldest gun store in the US when it closed during 2020 in midst of Covid Pandemic.
February 01, 2023, 09:54 PM
adobesig
Charlie's Sporting Goods in Albuquerque was in the movie Sunshine Cleaning.
February 02, 2023, 05:10 AM
Captain Morgan
I remember Edelmans. The was one in Totowa NJ on Route 46. I was real young and went there once.
Is the gun store in the movie First Blood real?
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February 02, 2023, 06:28 AM
Mars_Attacks
I work next door to the studio that shoots The Ozarks.
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February 02, 2023, 08:04 AM
Modern Day Savage
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Originally posted by njauto: Great thread! I was just googling this exact topic a few days ago. I was trying to find out if the gun shop in Rambo was real. Turn out it was filmed in Canada.
I found the movie I was thinking of that was shot in GA Firing Line, it’s Den Of Thieves, a crime drama that takes place in LA but is shot mostly in the Atlanta area. The movie is okay, but tries way too hard to be the movie Heat without any of the talent behind the camera or in front of it. If you are easily entertained like I am it’s not a waste of time, but any true film buff will likely hate it, especially because it’s such a direct rip-off.
I always like GA Firing Line, it was close to my house when I lived up there and they were nice enough folks. Towards the end of my stay in GA they got a little too “tactical” IMO for my tastes but their prices were fair and they had a recently renovated indoor range. I liked it better when it was Nicks, but hated it when it was Ed’s. The scene is shot mainly in the range and not much in the store itself.
As the story is based in LA they use an exterior shot of a real gun store in LA near LAX. It’s been years since I was there but it was an okay little place. It’s a very California range though and I had to sit through a video in order to shoot there. The location is good for foreign travelers though who want to shoot a gun. I used to work for a European company and a lot of those guys would come over and want to go shooting. I took more than one group to that range over the years. It’s not the best range but was very conveniently located as a lot of times people would stay in a hotel by the airport.
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February 02, 2023, 10:20 PM
parabellum
The GA Firing Line. I used to shoot there in the late 1980s when it was Ed's owned by Ed Mortimer. He had a reputation for trying to get every single penny he could out of customers. He made shooters rent these silly-ass "side shields" for shooting glasses at 50 cents a pair. They fit onto the temples of your shooting glasses, supposedly to keep foreign objects from entering your eyes. Uh huh. I never saw that at any other range around here. I finally bought a pair of Gargoyles which came with those silly side things. I ruined Ed's day because he didn't get my half a buck.
The thieving bastard dropped dead of a heart attack behind the counter.
