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Display of military firearms inside the Lithgow Small Arms Factory Museum in Lithgow, New South Wales

Lithgow Small Arm Factory Museum

  After a robbery of several handguns from the Lithgow Small Arms Museum, the museum’s weapons display has been closed to the public. If you had been there a few years ago, you would have seen the best display of firearms in the country. A 30‑minute drive from Katoomba in the Blue Mountains, just west of Sydney, brings you to Lithgow, the home of the Lithgow Small Arms Museum. The museum is located on Methven Street in a late‑1950s‑style building that looks like it may have been the old main office of the Small Arms Factory (SAF). Contained within these walls was, without a doubt, the best collection

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