A Lot To Feel Good About

By James Rummel

I wrote last month about my first experience firing submachine guns. Long time reader Fruitbat44 was kind enough to leave a comment.

“I have always wondered if the M3, especially the M3A1, was developed to make us Brits feel good about the Sten.”

What is this Sten of which Fruitbat44 speaks? It is a submachine gun the the United Kingdom developed and fielded during WWII.

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In the days leading up to the Second World War, the British Empire was not what it once was. Not a big surprise, as the First World War had pretty much remade the globe so much that nothing was like it once was. There was also that worldwide economic depression that made it tough to find the cash to modernize the armed forces.

Still, something had to be done. Germany was doing a pretty good job of rearming, and they made no secret of the fact that they were going to break the Versailles Treaty. Just about everyone realized that there was going to be a shooting war sooner or later.

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