Take note of the actions of the 'allowed' and the 'disallowed' rifles in question. So they're still taking away the barrels from the imported arms which "in their opinion" have no real 'use' to us everyday taxpayers. would not be allowed with a barrel due to the fact that they are not readily convertable to a "sporting" use (hunting). While this would mean that Mosin Nagant, Lee Enfield rifles, several Mauser types, and few others would be allowed to still be imported with barrels included due to their "sporting" capabilities -> Stens, Brens, AKMs, SKSs, Romak IIIs, RPKs, ect. Guess I'll just stick with my SAR-1, M-39, and CETME.ĮDIT: The last I saw at the YAHOO sten9mm group was the build was going to be about $150 for the semi-auto parts. I'd love to play with a Full-Auto STEN but the $200 Tax Stamp and about $2500 for a Legal STEN is too high a price to pay for a Bullet Hose, and the cost of an illegal Full-Auto if your caught isn't even worth talking about. It's also a good idea to only load 30 rounds in the 32 round mags as that was the SOP in the British SAS to help with the mag problems. Mags are cheap at under $10 for the 32 rounders and I saw 10 of them for $39.95 last year from TAPCO. Keep the Mags VERY CLEAN and if you can find "New" springs for them, replace the springs. The STEN didn't have too good of a reliability reputation, but that was the fault of the Magazines. The Mag Well is the heart of the STEN, get it too high and the bolt will hit the magazine, too low and it won't feed. A TIG is the way to go if you have access to one. The toughest part of a STEN MKIII or any STEN build is the "Bending" of the tube cuts for the "Mag well" and then welding the mag well in place without burning through the tube sides. Honestly the kit I received is identical to the picture, I'll try and post my kit later but the only diff is that you'll get to see my sexy hands!!! the mains spring, bolt, bolt handle, spring buffer?, and a small washer like cap round out the kit. lots of cosmoline and metal shavings !!!! absolutely coated with the junk.ħ. the trigger group is cut off the bottom of the tube. the stock is the "t" type and completely intact.Ĥ. the tube is cut right behind the barrel trunion.Ģ. I'll dig out my camera later, but for now just picture this:ġ. BUT try to find a mark 2 or 5 anywhere right now.theres a mark 2 parts kit on auctionarms with a current bid of $300 and a "buy me now" option of $450.00 On a mark 3 this means whacking off a bunch of blind rivets. the barrel is left inside its particular section of the receiver. like I said Ishoulda bought 2 to get a break on the shipping.$33 a piece almost doubles the cost.Ģ. The hardest part of this particular kit is :ġ. I mean they aren't "gunsmith clean" but definitely better than "minimum wage monkey clean". The cuts (all cuts)are made with a bandsaw and are pretty clean. I ordered my kit thru and they describe the kits as " Very good condition to Excellent" and I agree with that claim.Ģ. How about some close-up pics of the damage the BATF fucks require? A comrade would present better pics than a vendor, I assure, which is my reason for asking.ġ. The receiver of a sten might be much easier than an AK clone, but the parts they send in the kits leave little to be desired, or so I am told. I'm working on an AMD-65 "dummy gun" right now which has lots of work to be done and all the parts (less receiver) were intact and unharmed (the fire control group was replaced with semi-auto parts, too). IMO they'd require more work than I'm willing to make a nice "replica". I've bid on a few bandsaw kits on Ebay before but dropped out of the auction when the kits hit $50. Do you dream of making your "dummy gun" an exact replica or opt for a vertical magazine alignment model? (I'm attaching a pic of two nice vertical mag remakes of the sten, though bastardized, they look quite nice). Is the magazine well obliterated beyond a welders help?ģ. How does the barrel bore look? Clean? Pitted?Ģ. I've heard thru a source that Tapco has an incoming shipment of just such BSC kits in the very near future.ġ. These would be the ones to get as the torched kits are scrap. Is it a torch cut kit or cut into 4 pieces with a bandsaw? New BATF induced law requires torchcut kits these days, but if the kits were held up in customs, some bandsaw kits are still trickling thru.
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