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    Quote Originally Posted by henry r View Post
    A thought with no fact to back it up...
    it has been mentioned that a lot of home guard rifles ended up with heavily corded barrels from excessive cleaning. Plus that various peace time canadian rifles (c1's?) ended up loose from excessive cleaning. Could the home guard stens have ended up with similar wear?
    In the post war economy it could have been simpler/cheaper to just replace them instead of ftr-ing them?
    Quite a fair bit of the damage done to a service firearm tends to be excessive 'cleaning'. For example I have met idiots who felt it was a good idea to take a screwdriver and scrape the crown of the rifle until it shined. They called it the 'silver ring' (this being taught to them by other idiots who insisted upon this 'cleaning' standard). Other things such as constant assembly and disassembly (in particular over assembly and disassembly, such as trying to take of the pistol grip on a C7 which messes up the whole trigger mech) and abuse/lack of caring/lack of knowledge about the firearms leads to them being damaged.

    Not sure about the Stens, but it still happens to this day and I suspect it happens in most militaries.

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