{"id":12167,"date":"2020-06-19T00:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-19T05:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/19\/l2a3-smg-sterling-mk-4-mechanics-and-basic-potted-history\/"},"modified":"2020-07-18T10:46:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-18T15:46:45","slug":"l2a3-smg-sterling-mk-4-mechanics-and-basic-potted-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/19\/l2a3-smg-sterling-mk-4-mechanics-and-basic-potted-history\/","title":{"rendered":"L2A3 SMG \/ Sterling Mk.4: mechanics and basic potted history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ruD5b_T2DtU?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Mike takes a look at the mechanics of an L2A3 SMG \/ Sterling Mark 4, and gives a potted history of the 9mm submachine gun which replaced the STEN machine carbine in British service and served for around 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>Link to Sterling commercial manual: <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1A0Mh1m9GJ_ouC3HmIURcSwI6pEvfVami\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1A0Mh1m9GJ_ouC3HmIURcSwI6pEvfVami\/view?usp=sharing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yes, this was indeed the basis of the Star Wars E11 blaster.<\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>\nTeespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike takes a look at the mechanics of an L2A3 SMG \/ Sterling Mark 4, and gives a potted history of the 9mm submachine gun which replaced the STEN machine carbine in British service and served for around 40 years. Link to Sterling commercial manual: https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1A0Mh1m9GJ_ouC3HmIURcSwI6pEvfVami\/view?usp=sharing And yes, this was indeed the basis of the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/19\/l2a3-smg-sterling-mk-4-mechanics-and-basic-potted-history\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">L2A3 SMG \/ Sterling Mk.4: mechanics and basic potted history<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12863,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12167\/revisions\/12863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}