Building the Canadian Semi-Auto STEN

[Claven2]

here are some preliminary design decisions in my quest to devise an acceptable open bolt design. BE AWARE. These design changes ARE NOT YET REVIEWED BY THE RCMP AND MAY NOT GET APPROVED. You would build and submit a gun like this at your own risk as it may get confiscated.

Here we see a steel block that has been cut to fit between the trigger box wall and the disconnector slot. Coupled with the above-detailed modified selector, the trip lever can now not be readily made to move over to the full-auto position and the steel block welded in from behind makes filing out the disconnector slot nearly impossible:

And here is the back side showing the plug weld:

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[Mick]

here are some preliminary design decisions in my quest to devise an acceptable open bolt design. BE AWARE. These design changes ARE NOT YET REVIEWED BY THE RCMP AND MAY NOT GET APPROVED. You would build and submit a gun like this at your own risk as it may get confiscated.

Here we see a steel block that has been cut to fit between the trigger box wall and the disconnector slot. Coupled with the above-detailed modified selector, the trip lever can now not be readily made to move over to the full-auto position and the steel block welded in from behind makes filing out the disconnector slot nearly impossible:

And here is the back side showing the plug weld:

Here's another way of blocking the trip lever.