STERN!!!
Posted on 11/25/2015 6:30:25 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
Richard Cunningham was homeless. But he wasn’t gun-less, police allege.
Deputies found a cache of weapons at his Harbor City encampment, including: two fully operational submachine guns, four handguns, two makeshift silencers and numerous rounds of ammunition,
It is unclear how Cunningham came to possess the arsenal.
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Actually, no you wouldn't.
Notoriously bad gun.
The Sten can be built in any farm garage. Some tubing, a Dremel mototool, some sheet steel, you can buy magazines for a few dollars at any gun show outside the People's Democratic Republic of Kali. You can get the barrels by mail order.
Last I heard, the receiver is the vital part, what the ATF wants $200 for. A printed guide to what you should cut out of some tubing, downloaded off the net, is not illegal.
The rest of the "guns" in that pic are junk.
HOWEVER! There is what looks like an MP-5, or something along those lines, at the bottom edge of the pic.
I've gonna guess that this guy wasn't born homeless...
“...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.
If that 9mm, get much over 1100 fps, it will break the silence all by itself, also the action makes some noise.
Firing from an open bolt also is noisy, and I doubt that it can be disabled.
In RVN we had a few ‘silencers’ for the M-16s, when used the gas valve is closed. Still had the crack of the sound barrier, but that was all.
Only a few rounds and they had to be repacked.
Stern mkIII, not mkI.
Hard to believe it's been at least 14 years.
(I knew a fitter, Sue Cunningham, married to another fitter... Richard Cunningham)
STERN!!!
Gangs and hitmen pay some homeless to hang onto some items...
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.
Oh crap!
That just reminds me how old I’m getting!
The good news is, many did not think I’d make it past thirty!
Then they said I would slow down by forty, ha!
Sixtyfive when that damn car ran me over and squished my bicycle, that did slow me down! A couple of hours on the bike today, but since there was still some snow on the road, I did the rollers. Before I would have been on the road.
Good, bad or ugly there’s hardly a firearm ever made I wouldn’t like to own.
I was a tank commander on an M48A3 tank in Vietnam. As part of the OEM equipment, every tank had 2 M-3A1 SMG’s on board. It was VERY controllable on full auto. (due to the slow cyclic rate of 450 rpm) I could easily keep a 30 round burst on a man sized target at 50 yards. The thing would shoot after dropping it in mud, scooping out the excess mud with your little finger from the chamber so a round could enter, (it fired from the open bolt) and the mud would be ejected along with the empty casings as it fired.
It’s all about priorities.
“two fully operational submachine guns,”
How would the cops know- did they by chance takes turns checking.
How many guns does a homeless man need Mr Speaker
I believe the bottom submachine gun is a vz.26 (a vz.25 with a folding stock) It is chambered in the 7.62x25 round. You can see some 7.62x25 ammo in the picture and magazines.
I think the revolver is a Rohm RG-10 (.22 rimfire), but hard to be certain.
I am pretty sure the singleshot pistol is not a flare gun but a Cobray .45/.410 derringer. They were available in kit form.
I suspect the Cobray and the two sub-machine guns were constructed from kits, essentially homemade on the black market. The homeless man is a convicted felon, so it would make sense for him to have black market guns.
I doubt that the two sub-guns and the Cobray derringer have any serial numbers.
Too cool ! And I can but assume that they are legal- well, at least until you attach them to a firearm ....
THX !
Snoot ;o)
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