The left hand on top of the forward grip could push down on the top of the gun palm down would stop the barrel rising when shooting a burst. The idea being that the left for-arm would support the magazine and stop its weight rolling the gun over leftwards.
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My father was in the RAF during WW2 and he was trained to shoot the Sten, when firing full auto from the hip, by letting the magazine rest on the left for-arm and holding left hand ON TOP of the front grip with the left hand PALM DOWN. Tests were run on the MCEM series, on BSA guns, on interesting prototypes like the double-stack-magazine Vesely V42 – but it was George Patchett’s much improved Sten which would be chosen and come to be known as the Sterling SMG (named after it’s manufacturer). Only after the threat of immediate German land invasion had subsided was the Sten allowed to become a little bit user-friendly, in the MkV guise.Īt the end of WW2, the British were finally able to scrap the Sten (known to be a compromise gun all along) and replace it with something with more finesse. The Stens were truly exception studies in simplification, getting down to a mere 5.5 man-hours of production time. This was solved by acquiring and copying the German MP28/II, which was quickly followed by a simplification program that would lead to the MkI, MkI*, and ultimately MkII and MkIII Sten guns.
It was only with the outbreak of hostilities that the need for such a weapon suddenly became apparent and its acquisition became a military priority. Not every country had an issued SMG by 1939, but virtually everyone had at least been working on experimental concepts – except the British. Great Britain was one of the few countries that went into World War Two with virtually no submachine gun development. For detailed photos of the guns in this video, don’t miss the ARES companion blog post. Armament Research Services (ARES) is a specialist technical intelligence consultancy, offering expertise and analysis to a range of government and non-government entities in the arms and munitions field.
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