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and turned over to be demilled. Sad day to see these beauties surrendered and neutered when the French may need them the most.
http://www.guns.com/2017/10/19/french-resistance-cache-unearthed-including-stens-named-pepette-and-alice-photos/
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Take a look at the first name in the comment section lol.
"Sorry Goose, but it's time to buzz the tower."
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Fascinating stuff, would love to handle those. Reminds me of a youtuber (can't remember the name) who goes round with a metal detector pulling loads of WW2 arms straight out of the ground in the forests of Germany etc. The guy literally pulls out 5 or 6 MP40s etc in some vids - just left abandoned by the soldiers. Of course unlike the collection there it's always basically gun shaped blobs of rust at this point.
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Cool find. Sten guns were crude, cheap and effective (inside 100 yards that is).
You could build Sten MKV's from parts kits. Just had to have a new tube milled and some minor welding to fab them up. More of a novelty than anything. I knew a guy that only brought his out on July 4th and New Year's Eve. 
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-MAVERICK- wrote:Take a look at the first name in the comment section lol.
He lives! See, the GunShine state boys love some shooting!
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Kind of off topic, but my grandfather was in the Pacific theatre during WWII. When the Japanese surrendered they raided a Japanese warehouse and all grabbed a bunch of cool stuff to bring home.
Grandpa brought home a M1 rifle with folding stock, several old pistols(one of which was apparently taken from a US soldier during WWI and possibly sold to the Japanese). He also pulled a Kamikaze sword out of the chest of a Kamikaze pilot that had crashed into his Destroyer. I used to get out WWII documentaries and make him tell me every story he could remember, over and over. Good times, I miss it.
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The French designed the first oscillating turret tank and it had 14 gears- 13 for going in reverse and 1 for going forward....
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European people do not really need any handguns.
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