Hickok45 has some fun with a STEN SMG

That button that looks like a push button safety switches it from Full-Auto to Semi Auto, the only safety on it is the bolt catch cut in the receiver.

STEN is an acronym, from the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald V. Shepherd and Harold Turpin, and EN for Enfield, and was designed to help arm British and Allied forces in World War II after the disaster at Dunkirk, where tons of small arms and equipment were left behind.


It served with front line UK Forces until it was replaced with the Sterling in 1953.  It remained in use with secondary forces and is still in use with some colonial forces to this day.

Some more info about the STEN:

STEN World Guns

Military Factory


The STEN is one of the most copied easily produced firearms on the planet today.  It has been used as the basis for hundreds if not thousands of insurgent built weapons across the globe.  It simple design, using commonly available materials, with the exception of the barrel, almost all of the parts of the STEN design can be purchased in most hardware and automotive supply houses.

I personally would like a STEN for myself, not F/A as I doubt I could afford the Ammo for it, however I read about but can't find the link right now of a multi caliber STEN that can fire .22LR, .25ACP, .32ACP, 7.62X25 Tokarev,.380ACP,   9X17 Makarov, 9mm, .45ACP and a couple of other calibers using IIRC 4 bolts and 4 barrels with chamber and magwell adapters.  It has been about 8 years since I read of it last and I've been going nuts trying to find it again.  I think one of those would be a great toy to keep in the safe to be able to plink whatever ammo was available.