Strangely, while I had access to the DGIOB Director General, Indian Ordnance Board papers relating to the Sten gun, I never saw any mention of this very short magazine. You can actually see that it is a 19 round mag that's been shortened. On that basis alone I'd say that this man, whoever he is, was spouting horse manure. I was almost expecting him to say at the end that while these magazines are extremely rare, he has uncovered a small cache and is selling them at a premium to UK naive collectors.
The short 10 round Sten magazines are an American thing.
A few States have laws restricting magazine capacity to 10 rounds, California, NJ, IL. So, people cut mags down or put plugs in them to restrict them to 10 rounds.
They are also modified for Star Wars blasters.
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Originally Posted by Flying10uk
Yeh but, his "standard 32rnd Sten mag" isn't. It's a 19rnd mag.
Yes. They were both modified to 19 rounds. Then the short one was cut down to 10 rounds. You can see the holes where the brass rods were.
Sterling did the same, just converted 32 rounders. The good news for Sterling was that they could utilise damaged magazines that had come i from nations who had sent their L2's in for reconditioning. Sell them NEW magazines and use the old dented ones as 10 or 15 rounders. Everyone a winner!
I like your turn of phrase Brian! In Australia we had plenty of sayings/phrases like that, that I quickly learned! When I got back to the UK, they thought I was talking in a foreign language!
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Originally Posted by Flying10uk
