British STEN Gun

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 1/2/2017 | J Hines

[Chode]

i can't get it to load, the link returns an interrupt failure

[dynachrome]

Try this, main index:

https://www.apexgunparts.com/index.php

[Mr Radical]

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.

[Chode]

thx...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Ah for the good old days!

[Chode]

by US Mail no less...

[jttpwalsh]

Not sure what makes me more sad; the fact it could be mail ordered, or that sales tax was 4% in L.A. !

[US_MilitaryRules]

4 million of them made. I guess they were all destroyed after the war.

[1066AD]

At the attack on Heydrich in WW2 the Sten jammed and nearly ended the op.

[DCBryan1]

and shipped from ...GASP....CALIFORNIA! My how times have changed.

[Chode]

and the kicker is, $5 down and the rest COD!!!

[Boomer]

I would love to have one of these; especially because they shoot the common 9mm round.

[jmacusa]

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.

[Celtic Conservative]

Everyboy talks about the STEN, but the gold standard was the sterling.

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[Frank_2001]

Maybe that will change after Jan. 20 ??! ;)

[C19fan]

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.