page_title: Sten
section_title: Mark II (Canadian)
hierarchical_section_title: Sten / Variants / Mark II (Canadian)
caption_attribution_description: English: Woman worker poses with finished Sten submachinegun, Small Arms Plant, Long Branch, Ontario, Canada.
context_page_description: The STEN was a family of British submachine guns chambered in 9×19mm and used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War. They had a simple design and very low production cost, so they were also effective insurgency weapons for resistance groups. The STEN served as the basis for the Sterling submachine gun, which replaced the STEN in British service, and also was used by many other nations, including insurgent groups.
  The STEN is blowback operated, and somewhat unusually, loads its magazine from the left of the weapon, rather than the bottom.
  STEN is an acronym, from the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald V. Shepherd and Harold Turpin, and EN for Enfield.
  Over four million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s, making it the second most produced submachine gun of the Second World War, after the Soviet PPSh-41.
context_section_description: During World War II a version of the Sten gun was produced at the Long Branch Arsenal in Long Branch, Ontario now part of Toronto, Ontario. This was very similar to the regular Mark II, with a different stock ('skeleton' type instead of strut type) and improved quality of manufacture. It was first used in combat in the Dieppe Raid in 1942.
  The Mark II is made in China with a copy known as the M38. The Chinese M38s were made in a fully automatic only configuration and not in select fire unlike the standard Mark II. The M38 was made in 9mm and 7.62 Tokarev varients.
  Mark II:
  Overall length: 896 mm (35.3 in)
  Barrel length: 198 mm (7.8 in)
  Weight: 3.8 kg (8.4 lb)
caption: Worker posing with a Sten Mk II in the factory on 26 May 1942.
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