The Sten gun was Britain’s principal sub-machine gun of World War Two. What’s In a Name? “Sten” is actually an acronym for its inventors: Reginald Shepherd and Harold Turpin of the Royal Small Arms Factory of Enfield (Shepherd, Turpin and Enfield = “Sten”). More @Wikipedia
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