I’m actually kind of surprised the British didn’t drop the Sten—which had wildly varying quality of build depending on who built the gun—in favor of the M3 “grease gun,” which was a better submachine gun even with the issues with the magazine.
What I know of the Sten gun was it was not a very well designed and well functioning weapon.
Everyboy talks about the STEN, but the gold standard was the sterling.
CC
The Sten gun was a last ditch weapon for the British fearing the Nazis would cross the Channel after the fall of France. The Sten was cheap, unlike the much more refined Thompson, so the Brits kept producing them.