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British STEN Gun
Am Shooting Journal ^
| 1/2/2017
| J Hines
Posted on 01/02/2017 6:09:30 AM PST by w1n1
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To: dynachrome
i can't get it to load, the link returns an interrupt failure
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posted on
01/02/2017 7:54:32 AM PST
by
Chode
(may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
To: Chode
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posted on
01/02/2017 7:57:43 AM PST
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: w1n1
I’ve been told by several vets that the only plus for the sten was that it cost just pennies to manufacture. They were issued to NCOs but many were ‘lost’ at the first opportunity, and a different weapon aquired.
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posted on
01/02/2017 8:04:15 AM PST
by
Mr Radical
(In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
01/02/2017 8:11:51 AM PST
by
Chode
(may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
To: DCBryan1
Ah for the good old days!
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
by US Mail no less...
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posted on
01/02/2017 9:17:58 AM PST
by
Chode
(may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Not sure what makes me more sad; the fact it could be mail ordered, or that sales tax was 4% in L.A. !
To: w1n1
4 million of them made. I guess they were all destroyed after the war.
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posted on
01/02/2017 9:28:45 AM PST
by
US_MilitaryRules
(The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
To: jmacusa
At the attack on Heydrich in WW2 the Sten jammed and nearly ended the op.
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posted on
01/02/2017 9:31:21 AM PST
by
1066AD
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; Chode
and shipped from ...GASP....CALIFORNIA! My how times have changed.
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posted on
01/02/2017 9:31:31 AM PST
by
DCBryan1
(No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
To: DCBryan1
and the kicker is, $5 down and the rest COD!!!
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posted on
01/02/2017 9:36:22 AM PST
by
Chode
(may the RATS all die of dehydration from crying)
To: w1n1
I would love to have one of these; especially because they shoot the common 9mm round.
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posted on
01/02/2017 9:36:24 AM PST
by
Boomer
(You can't shame a fascist leftist (liberal) because they don't understand the concept of honor.)
To: 1066AD
Yes it did. That whole operation was a bollix from the start. They didn’t kill him right away, an infection from horse hair seat stuffing is what killed him. Thanks to grenade shrapnel and the poor civilians in the village of Lidice paid the price.
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posted on
01/02/2017 9:47:00 AM PST
by
jmacusa
(Election 2016. The Battle of Midway for The Democrat Party.)
To: RayChuang88
Everyboy talks about the STEN, but the gold standard was the sterling.
CC
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posted on
01/02/2017 10:46:50 AM PST
by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
To: DCBryan1
Maybe that will change after Jan. 20 ??! ;)
To: RayChuang88
The Sten gun was a last ditch weapon for the British fearing the Nazis would cross the Channel after the fall of France. The Sten was cheap, unlike the much more refined Thompson, so the Brits kept producing them.
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posted on
01/03/2017 6:31:31 AM PST
by
C19fan
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