STEN Sub-Machine Gun Found In UK Home:

The British tabloid DAILY MAIL reported on June 16 that builders working on the home of recently dead 99 year old Eileen Burgoyne found - amid a cache of weapons - "bullets, documents, and a STEN-GUN" - a WW2 9mm submachine gun .

Eileen Burgoyne.

Police Guard Outside the House where She Lived.

 

Neighbours said that it was thought locally that reclusive linguist Eileen had been a wartime spy and worked for MI 5 when serving between 1945 and 1953.

 

 

- What is truly amazing is how England has escaped from a major disaster resulting from this dangerous un-licenced machine-gun being in the community for the last sixty-two years !!

 

- Just goes to show .. mustn't grumble eh.

 

Marty K.

 

P.S. Isn't it a shame that so many of these wartime heroines & heroes have passed without telling us their stories.

 

Hickok45 plus STEN
.. Watch the 'Close-up' and 'Woods Walk' Clips Too.

The blow-back operated STEN name is an acronym  from the weapons designers Major Reginald V Shepherd and Harold Turpin and EN for Enfield (- Royal Small-Arms Factory Enfield.) - Although STENs were also built in many different plants worldwide - including Europe & overseas, Canada, Australia (Austen), and by Radio Corporation New Zealand.

MK