Firearms for Us Peasants!

   

   

The Bren gun is a fantastic weapon in it's class as a squad automatic weapon (SAW), and other than weight, it beats the 1918A2 BAR hands down.

The Sten gun is an interesting submachine gun that defines cheap and durable, but not because it was designed to be durable. It's just hard to wear out a pipe and chunk of steel.

I have an interesting story about a Sten gun.

I was searching a house with a detective from another Dept. looking for a possible murder victim. I opened a door to a closet and saw the buttstock of a Sten sticking out of some towels. I showed it to the detective, and we thought it was interesting. Then somewhere else in the house I found a barrel, and then a partially loaded magazine somewhere else. We knew there was a receiver somewhere in the house; we had everything else, so we started looking for it. We had looked all through the house and were in the basement standing under a HVAC duct. The detective looked at me and said, "Now if I was a Sten gun receiver where would I hide". He then reached up over the duct without looking and pulled out the receiver. We collected all the parts, assembled the gun, and marveled at how simple it was. We turned it over to the ATF, and never heard anything about what happened after that.

Oh, and just in case you want to ask, we had a signed consent to search, and there was no murder victim, but the suspect tried to shoot up a small city PD headquarters because one of the officers was diddling his wife, and he got caught. He was going to use the Sten gun but Sten magazines aren't known for their reliability, and his fell in the wont work category.