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

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

The grease gun? The one that afaik was made by resistance forces like MacGuyver? That one?