{"id":2263,"date":"2013-05-24T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T13:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/05\/24\/just-because\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:04","slug":"just-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2263","title":{"rendered":"Just Because.."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11020,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260330160252\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 01:56:13&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 12:23:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 12:23:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13501,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/photos.imageevent.com\\\/badgerdog\\\/generalstorage\\\/pdfpublications\\\/content_arcana_gunsmithing_Sten_Mk_II_Plans_1_.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13502,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/wrol.blogsite.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13503,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/upload.wikimedia.org\\\/wikipedia\\\/commons\\\/8\\\/82\\\/StenmkII_animation.gif&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150301130215\\\/http:\\\/\\\/upload.wikimedia.org\\\/wikipedia\\\/commons\\\/8\\\/82\\\/StenmkII_animation.gif&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 19:34:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 19:34:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:429},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI&#8217;m posting this just because it entertained me. I love Greg Hickok aka Hickok45&#8217;s YouTube videos and this one is no exception. Who among us wouldn&#8217;t want to shoot a Sten submachine gun? I know ammo is in short supply but I&#8217;d scrounge the &#8220;ammo bunker&#8221; to find enough 9mm to go shooting for an afternoon with the Sten.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tPGjuiZTuKA\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nWhile you can&#8217;t legally make and register a new Sten under the NFA with the ATF thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hughes Amendment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.imageevent.com\/badgerdog\/generalstorage\/pdfpublications\/content_arcana_gunsmithing_Sten_Mk_II_Plans_1_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full blueprints are available<\/a>. If we ever enter a TEOTWAWKI (or the new acronym, <a href=\"http:\/\/wrol.blogsite.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WROL<\/a>) period, I have no doubt that a competent machinist with a decent workshop including a milling machine could make one.<\/p>\n<p>Below is an animation of the Sten firing. You can see that it is an open bolt, blowback operated, firing mechanism.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/82\/StenmkII_animation.gif\" imageanchor=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"327\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/82\/StenmkII_animation.gif\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m posting this just because it entertained me. I love Greg Hickok aka Hickok45&#8217;s YouTube videos and this one&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1656,2188],"class_list":["post-2263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hickok45","tag-sten-mk-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9170,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2263\/revisions\/9170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}