Sten

[rtyner06]

I need some advice. I have a friend who told me that a collector friend of his has (had) 7 Stens. The friend died a few years back and the wife wants to get rid of them. I was told they were never registered and I would hate for the ATF to get these via a turn in and be subsequently destroyed. For obvious reasons I don't want to get real close to this. Does anyone know of anything that can be done legally to help this lady out and maybe save some wonderful pieces of history? I was thinking maybe having them disassembled and sold for parts. I have not seen them so I am going only on what I was told. My friend has seen them. He told me that some had metal stocks and some were wooden.


Ray Tyner
Peachtree City, GA

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[CINDERS]

Maybe approach an arms museum and see what can be done to save these pieces of history.

[Pascal Maufort]

Hello everyone,
I have a sten demilitarized didactic weapon.
But the tripping lever pin is missing, and it is included in the nomenclature parts list under nr BE 9083
I have seen several for sale on sites in the United States, about 2 or 3 USD, but as it is a piece of weapon, it can not be sold abroad, so in Belgium .

Could someone help me?

Thank you in advance.

Pascal

[Brit plumber]

It's just a piece of rod so cut down some steel bar or if you have an old drill bit, just use a dremmel or die grinder to cut to the correct length.

[Gil Boyd]

Ray,
My advice from across the pond and an ex Police Officer of 30 years experience for what its worth, is do not disassemble the Stens, and try to sell or pass them on legally.
If these weapons have never been registered in a documented State system where she resides, be totally open with the local Sheriffs department, and say they were found in a junk pile in the loft and as her husband was a veteran she would like to keep them or dispose of them to a Military museum which would have been her husbands wishes.
To keep them they would, like here in the UK, go off to an approved house to be deactivated where you get a certificate corroborating that, but of course there may be an inter State law stopping you doing that and the ATF would be called.
I certainly know of many instances in the UK where families have found old weapons when someone dies that they did not know their loved one had brought back from WW2 or before, which of course in days gone by the laws surrounding this were a lot slacker than they are today, and they have been able to register them legally as historic family interest items and deactivated or left alone dependent on the individual situation.

Be totally honest with the authorities regarding these weapons, do not try to break them up, as they will find their way into the wrong hands eventually and come back to bite you in the arse.
Honesty & Transparency is the best way forward, Trust me. I am sure a museum would love to use them somewhere rather than they be held in an ATF "collectors" pen for the rest of their days

[Gil Boyd]

Ray,
I have found this on the web which I am sure you could access more detail over there. Hope it helps as it is a synopsis of Georgia state laws on purchase, possession and carrying of firearms. PLEASE READ THE FOOTNOTE IN RED

PURCHASE AND POSSESSION

No state permit is required for the purchase or possession of a shotgun, rifle, or handgun.

Any person who is not prohibited by law from possessing a handgun or long gun may have or carry on his or her person a weapon or long gun on his or her property or inside his or her home, motor vehicle, or place of business without a valid weapons carry license.
NATIONAL FIREARMS ACT “FIREARMS”

It is unlawful to possess a short barreled rifle or shotgun, silencer, explosive device, or machine gun.2 Exempt from this prohibition are persons authorized to possess such an item because he has registered it in accordance with the National Firearms Act. Also exempt is any such item that has been modified to the extent that it is inoperative - an example of the requisite modification is a weapon with the barrel “filled with lead.”

Range Protection

No sport shooting range shall be or shall become a nuisance, either public or private, solely as a result of changed conditions in or around the locality of such range if the range has been in operation for one year since the date on which it commenced operation as a sport shooting range. Subsequent physical expansion of the range or expansion of the types of firearms in use at the range shall not establish a new date of commencement of operations.

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

It is unlawful to: point a firearm at another person; discharge a firearm within 50 yards of a public highway or street; discharge a firearm on the property of another person without the property owner’s permission; possess a firearm during the commission of most crimes; while hunting, use a firearm in a manner that endangers another person; or discharge a firearm while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. READ ALL
Footnote 1

1 For the purpose of this code section, loaded includes having the handgun and ammunition “in such close proximity to such person that such person could readily gain access to the pistol or revolver and the ammunition and load the pistol or revolver.”
Footnote 2

The Georgia statute has an unusual definition of machine gun: “. . . any weapon which shoots or is designed to shoot, automatically, more than six shots, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.” Regardless of Georgia’s definition, federal law strictly governs, among many other things, weapons which fire more than one shot by a single function of the trigger.

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Ray,
Always a bonus when its in plain ENGLISH have a read at this link about machine guns in Georgia and Registering that might help also..........

Georgia Gun Laws in Plain English on GeorgiaPacking.org

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