Consignments of guns and machetes are said to have arrived in Nairobi slums.
In an interview this week with the Sunday Times, Peaky Blinders' producer, Caryn Mandabach, said that if the first series was about Tommy Shelby playing a good hand – the consignment of guns – very well, this series is, "Tommy playing a terrible hand against skilled gangsters and revolutionaries".
Anyone needing a consignment of guns, to start a revolution, say, or perhaps a counter-revolution, had only to telephone Mr Cummings or his staff and, once the money details had been settled, they would be on their way by the quickest route.
Postscript: Of guns and militias.
The UK is sending a consignment of heavy machine guns and ammunition to Iraq's government to assist with its battle against militants from Islamic State (Isis), the defence secretary, Michael Fallon, has said.
Blackmailed by his base commander into delivering a consignment of stolen guns to an address in the city, Brutus goes on the run, colliding with violence.
When the first consignment of three hundred and fifty-three guns had been delivered Colonel Lewis's royalties on this consignment amounted to $10,889.17.
But military chiefs in Paris confirmed that French planes had dropped consignments of machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and anti-tank missiles to rebels in the western Nafusa mountains.
The Hales sent the first consignment of aoogs and now are ready to send a second consignment.
He was caught in July 1983 trying to buy a consignment of M60 machine guns to ship back to Ireland.
