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Sten

British submachine gun; it used a 9 mm pistol cartridge, common throughout Europe, in a 32-shot magazine firing at about 500 shots a minute. A cheap and easily made weapon, it was turned out in millions and armed all three British services during World War II and after as well as being dropped wholesale to resistance groups all over Europe.
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