Topic: Assault Rifle 5

Vitaly · February 19th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Canadian Sergeant

My personal fav. is the German Stenn Gun. Nice, but heavy to lugg around

Bren, maybe?

Pete031 · February 19th, 2005

Bren gun is also a British weapon... My Great Uncle was a Bren Gunner in WW2

Vitaly · February 19th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Pete031

Bren gun is also a British weapon... My Great Uncle was a Bren Gunner in WW2

Yeah I know, I meant that it was heavy and hard to carry around, so I figured that a british weapon was the subject and the only one which could be confused with sten is bren, which is also kinda funny since one is an SMG and the other is a LMG

Charge 7 · February 19th, 2005

The sten gun was made from a melding of two makers. One Chech and is where the "st" part comes from. Can't remember the name of the company at the moment. Maybe somebody can help me out with it. The second part "en" does indeed come from "bren" so thus the "sten" gun.

lemontree · February 21st, 2005

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Originally Posted by Charge_7

The sten gun was made from a melding of two makers. One Chech and is where the "st" part comes from. Can't remember the name of the company at the moment. Maybe somebody can help me out with it. The second part "en" does indeed come from "bren" so thus the "sten" gun.

Nitpicking here.
Charge_7 (nice name though),
You got is wrong mate. The STEN name came out of names of the designers (R. V. Shepard and H.J. Turpin) and from the factory where they worked (ENfield arsenal). It was one of the most crude and ugly and simply, but effective submachineguns of the WW2. More than 4 millions of STENs of different wersions were made from 1941 until 1945.
http://world.guns.ru/smg/smg38-e.htm
The BREN machine gun had been initially developed in Czechoslovakia as ZB-26, and then redesigned to fire rimmed british .303 ammunition. The designation BREN stands for (BRno-ENfield).
http://world.guns.ru/machine/mg10-e.htm

Pete031 · February 21st, 2005

Some Veterans were telling me that sometimes they would just throw their Sten gun in a room and let it go off and spray the room... Guess it didn't take much to have a runaway gun with it.

lemontree · February 21st, 2005

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Originally Posted by Pete031

Some Veterans were telling me that sometimes they would just throw their Sten gun in a room and let it go off and spray the room... Guess it didn't take much to have a runaway gun with it.

The Sten and its sucessor Sterling have a bad reputation of firing when you don't want it to, and not firing when one wants it to.

bushpig1998 · February 22nd, 2005

Gimme the bushmaster carbon 15 type 97 anyday for front line infantry with 2 guys per squad as DM's with Scoped FAL's.

What a nice rifle. Only weighs like 4 lbs! nice!

Marksman · February 22nd, 2005

M70AB2.....................i think iv said this so many times that my post will be just....well....overseen

Charge 7 · February 22nd, 2005

Ah yes, the BREN got it's name from the Chechs and Enfield. I was as I said, going from memory and not searching the web for stats, thus my request that somebody give more details.

February 19th, 2005	Post 44
Charge 7 Master Gunner	The sten gun was made from a melding of two makers. One Chech and is where the "st" part comes from. Can't remember the name of the company at the moment. Maybe somebody can help me out with it. The second part "en" does indeed come from "bren" so thus the "sten" gun. __________________ "Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns, which are the most-to-be respected arguments of the rights of kings." - Frederick the Great, King of Prussia

February 22nd, 2005	Post 49
Marksman Tribuni Angusticlavii	M70AB2.....................i think iv said this so many times that my post will be just....well....overseen __________________

February 19th, 2005	Post 42
Pete031 Centurion Gear	Bren gun is also a British weapon... My Great Uncle was a Bren Gunner in WW2

February 21st, 2005	Post 46
Pete031 Centurion Gear	Some Veterans were telling me that sometimes they would just throw their Sten gun in a room and let it go off and spray the room... Guess it didn't take much to have a runaway gun with it.

February 22nd, 2005	Post 48
bushpig1998 Optio	Gimme the bushmaster carbon 15 type 97 anyday for front line infantry with 2 guys per squad as DM's with Scoped FAL's. What a nice rifle. Only weighs like 4 lbs! nice!

February 22nd, 2005	Post 50
Charge 7 Master Gunner	Ah yes, the BREN got it's name from the Chechs and Enfield. I was as I said, going from memory and not searching the web for stats, thus my request that somebody give more details.