OK FReepers
Tell us what kind of sub-machine guns those are.
They look home-made
Don’t bet your Thanksgiving dinner on it but I think those are British Sten guns. Could be home made but probably not.
Not home-made. The upper one is a British Sten gun, standard commando arm in WW II. The bottom one looks like a US-made, GI M-3 "grease gun". Both are easy-to-mass-produce squad automatic weapons intended for CQB. The M-3 was, I think, an Army weapon; I don't think I've ever heard of Marines being issued that weapon. Others will correct me if that's wrong.
Top to bottom:
Ruger Mk1 .22 pistol with M16A1 flash hider mounted to shortened threaded barrel, probably to mount a suppressor that supports mounting to an M16A1 hider. I don’t see one in the pic.
Piece of crap .38S&W revolver, possibly made by JG (German gun corp).
Three STEN Gun magazines and an unthreaded STEN barrel and trunnion coupler.
STEN Mk1 9mm submachine gun, rebuilt from a demilled parts kit and a tube, mounted with a homemade suppressor constructed from a commercial truck’s oil filter.
Extra STEN Mk1 stock.
Czech CZ Sa vz. 25 submachine gun, with correct sling. Appears to be all original. Pretty nice.
They look like Sten guns, you used to be able to buy kits and plans to make your own.
Hard to tell, but the one closest to the camera looks a bit like an M3 Grease Gun. Hard to believe it is, though.
The one with the big fat can suppressor on the end and the mag well sticking out the side is a sten. Not sure what the other one is. Stens had the mag on the side so that they could be fired prone.
Or, in this case, homeless-made.
“...They look home-made”
They are not.
The top (with the cylinder on the muzzle) is the MK II variant of Britain’s STEn submachine gun of WWII.
The second is a CZ25, one of the earliest submachine guns to use a recessed bolt. Design fundamentals have been widely copied and some credit the CZ25 with having a major influence on the design of the Uzi.
The STEn went out of production in the 1940s and the CZ25 was discontinued in 1968. It’s anybody’s guess how they arrived on US territory.
Full auto guns have been highly regulated in the US since 1934, and it’s highly illegal for private citizens to own unregistered items. But such guns can be found regardless; ought to suggest to the average person the futility of gun bans.
Look like Stens, at least 1 does and maybe a Sterling. Legal as semis or full auto with a stamp in a free state.
Maybe grease guns? Tankers used to have them. They’re fairly crude weapons.