No, what they needed was a gun that could be made quickly with the minimal use of machine tools. The basic design for the Sten was completed in 1940 by Major Reginald Shepherd and Mr. Harold ...

The Sten gun was Britain’s answer to a serious shortage of arms at the time of the Battle of Britain. As a response to the shortage, they came up with a submachine gun that ultimately carried ...

There are many outstanding firearms developed during World War II, but none combined down-to-basics simplicity with the cost-cutting frugality of the Sten gun. The necessity that mothered this ...