The one pictured is a more modern model, but the original L96 is, with 90s era machine tools, the one that’s probably easier to make in a garage. All the stampings on the sten are substantially more difficult to create as a one-off, but the action on the L96 just needs a lathe and a broach or EDM, all the rest of it a series of very simple milled components and a composite stock that you could build a mold for out of fiberglass and Bondo.
Sniper rifles are specialized equipment, sos you can get away with limited production capacity. In a war, everyone wants SMGs, bang them out in a factory as cheaply as possible.
It’s the ugly one, right
Hot take:
Yes.
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guess which one was cranked out in the thousands from sheet metal and piping during a war where the entire island faced u-boat blockades?
yeah…
Man the L96 story is incredible. And so is the gun
Mike and Zack are wonderful
The grease gun? The one that afaik was made by resistance forces like MacGuyver? That one?
The L96. Basically cracked out hunting rifle.
