The biggest arms shop in Europe will soon open its door in a Danish city. The owners of the ‘Weapon Fortress’ claim the store offering various types of guns, rifles and ammunition will be a mecca for enthusiasts.

The 5,000-square-meter Ostysk Vabenhandel shop was built in the town of Hedensted, in central Jutland Peninsula.

The store is to be nearly twice as big as Europe’s current largest weapon shop, in Germany.

“It is built to the maximum limit in relation to what the local planning codes allow,” co-owner Kenneth Pedersen told Ekstra Bladet newspaper as cited by the Local. “We have an additional 2,500 square meters on the upper level that we can’t use. If we could, we would have definitely used that too.”

The store will also have hunting expedition company and a taxidermist.

The shop, scheduled to open on July 31, will serve as a mecca for weapons enthusiasts from around the world, believes Pedersen.

“The influx of new hunters has been increasing over the past many, many years,” he said.

To secure the shop guns and ammunition from thieves the shop owners have taken extraordinary security measures. The shop was built “like a fortress,” Knud Nielsen, the store’s security chief, told Danmarks Radio as cited by the Local.

“The security rules are very comprehensive for a shop like this,” he added, “It’s some of the highest security you can get. Some of the requirements are the same as bank vaults”

Among the security precautions are steel wires with padlocks through each display gun’s trigger, and the placement of inventory weapons and ammunition in locked safes. The shop will be also equipped with bulletproof-glass windows, Nielen added.

“We have video surveillance outside and a direct line to police,” Nielsen said. “It’s not like other places where thieves could just take their car and drive into the building like a battering ram. It can’t be done.”

In Denmark the right to hunt belongs to the landowner, who can lease this to third parties for a maximum of 30 years, according to the National Hunting Act. Not all types of hunting are allowed in the country. For example, falconry, hunting with hounds and trapping are forbidden.

Those who are planning to go hunting in the Scandinavian country first to apply for a temporary license. Danish interest in the activity is growing steadily all the time.



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That looks smaller than most of the crappy pawn shops here.

All bolt actions... looks like a NY gun shop.

Shelves in the back stacked floor to ceiling with

Looks like I should be called "fuddland."

Anybody remember edelmans on rt 110 it was like kmart but with guns it was in the movie survivors with robin Williams

When you walk in the door, a speaker plays Wagner, and they supply you with a busty blond as your personal rifle bearer.

No, really.

I guess that is impressive (in Europe).

Got a little gnome on the counter with his hand out and a sign, "Your beard must be this long to buy a firearm..."

lol, when my Danish nephews want to hunt, they come to Missouri for holiday.

Came to post this...  "mecca"; my ass

5,000 sq meters is nearly 54,000 sq ft. That's pretty darned big for a gun shop!

I'd imagine the photo only shows a small portion of the available inventory.

Jesus, hopefully some of those are o/u rifles or they have a trap and skeet range in the back. Looks like the browning sales rep that calls on them will be vacaying in Tahiti this year

Looks more like a fudd fortress.

Something is awesome in the state of Denmark

I'd also imagine that that one pic best describes the inventory.  IOW, everything else is less impressive than whats in the pic.  
None the less, still giving it a 1/10on my give a fuck meter... A) its in Europe, I've spent too much time there already, B) Anybody in Europe that wants to shoot comes here anyway, and 3) no shits given about the smooth bores.

Here's one of the comments

My Brother in law retired Air Force married and lived in Denmark for many years before moving back to the states because of the ridiculous taxes there.  I didn't think they were allowed to own guns at all in Denmark and took his kids shooting for the first time when they moved back over here.  Guess I learned something new today.

I see tons of reloading stuff there.

Denmark - Where the men are men, and the geese are nervous

ETA: Looks like a cabela's, bass pro, etc...

Agreed, weak selection weak indeed.

thought this was about a quake 2 MOD...

ARs are available in Denmark. Hunting rifles are more common though.

Oh look, an American talking out of his ass. How unusual.

All the Cabela's I've been to have had a lot of pistols and a lot of black rifles.

Same with Bass Pro.

Change your avatar back!

Make me.

What does your gun collection look like?



Can you own any semi autos?



 

Most likely.

I have a few. My greatest limitation hasn't been the law, but a lack of funds. Guns are pricey here.

Check back in 50 years when Muslims have completely overrun the country.  Might have more "fun rifles".  It'll also be a mud hut, but, you know...

Sigh.

<Removed - T7> You know nothing of me, or what I have done for this Nation.  I literally spilled my blood in Europe "Just because I am an American".  I lived there (on the economy; not on Base) for 8 god damed years.  So until you can actually PROVE your 'talking out his ass' theory, <Removed - T7>

Fudds R Us

You're off your meds. Chill.

My type of shopping.

A pool full of sharks with laser beams.

Your humor sickens me.

And your ignorance sickens me.

 

Looks like a nice slightly smaller than average gun shop





Europe  , u so funny

 

Do you have many 5000 square meter gun stores over there?

Nordic caliphate for the loss!



 

square footage doesn't mean jack and it sounds like they can only use 1/2 of it





There is a 55,000 square foot shop about an hour from me but honestly they have maybe the gun inventory we have


rest is decoys , blinds and shit
 

Edelmans had 2 locations in PA. Went to the one on the boulevard as a kid all the time with my Dad.
It was an amazing store with just about anything you would want.

5K square feet...

whoop-dee-fucking-doo...

Collector's Firearms in Houston is bigger than that.
http://www.collectorsfirearms.com/

Houston also has multiple Carter's Country locations, each probably 5k+ sq. ft.

Galazan's in CT is pretty big.