Original Item: Only One Available. This is an original British WWII type Sten Mk V inert display submachine gun assembled from original military components around a solid fabricated aluminum dummy receiver. It retains the correct wooden butt stock and pistol grip, original magazine housing and controls, a replica barrel assembly with original front sight components, and an included magazine. The magazine housing is marked STEN MK. 5 and carries postwar Pakistani service markings with serial number AO4253. As this display gun is constructed using a non-firing BATF compliant solid aluminum dummy receiver with no internal parts, it is a 100% legal display Sub-Machine gun, totally legal to own without a license of any kind

Introduced in 1944, the Mk V was essentially a better-quality, more elaborate version of the Mk 2. Changes included a wooden pistol grip, a vertical wooden fore grip (only on early versions), a wooden stock, and a bayonet mount. There was a No4 Lee–Enfield foresight and the weapon was of better quality manufacture and finish than the Mk2 and Mk3. The Sten bandolier issued to paratroopers held seven full magazines.

Another variant of the Mk V had a swivel stock and rear sight mirror intended for firing around corners in urban warfare, similar to the Krummlauf developed by the Germans for the StG 44.

This example constructed from original parts on a new made solid aluminum dummy receiver, is fully ATF compliant as a non-gun and exactly duplicates the feel and appearance of the original. It has been finished in "stove black" as the originals during WWII were. The condition, including the original wooden stock and pistol grip, is very good. The trigger still pulls, and the fire selector can be moved back and forth. The barrel is a fabricated replica, though it is fitted with a real front sight, and it even has the bayonet lug on the front, though we do not know if it can mount a bayonet. The barrel jacket can be unscrewed to examine the barrel.

The upper side of the magazine housing is marked as follows:

STEN MK. 5
P. O. F. 66 AO4253

with no other markings present. It also has a Broad Arrow over M D / P marking on the right side of the butt stock, both of which indicate military service in Pakistan after the war. The parts are most likely WWII production, obtained from Great Britain, who supplied them with large numbers of obsolete arms. The markings would suggest that it was received and put into arsenal in 1966. The attaching iron of the wooden butt stock retains several different serial numbers, including one that has been struck through.

The Mk V is generally considered to be the best of the Sten family, and was most extensively issued to airborne troops. It is widely represented in British hands in the film A Bridge Too Far. Combat photographs of British airborne troops show how extensive the use of the Mk V was.

The Mk V was designed to use an Enfield rifle sling so that it could be supported with the sling around the soldier's neck as was developed for the early Thompson Lend-Lease deliveries to Britain. This in fact represents the origin of the "assault sling" configuration, which is used almost universally today.

With its Sten Mk V configuration, original wooden furniture, marked magazine housing, Pakistani P.O.F. service markings, serial number AO4253, and included magazine, this is a strong postwar service display example built from original military parts. The dummy aluminum receiver, replica barrel, mixed serial markings on the stock iron, and postwar Pakistani service history are all fully disclosed. It would fit especially well in a British WWII weapons, airborne, Sten, postwar Commonwealth service, or inert military display collection.

NOTE: Magazine will be deactivated if shipped to a state where they are prohibited.