There's something 'Asian' about them, especially the one on the bolt. If such production also took place in other nazi-occupied countries, could this particular gun be one? Just a thought.Įdit: After looking more closely at the stampings, I'm thinking Asia.
Some of these were smooth-bored, others had only two grooves in the bore (proper rifling demanded tooling that most of these shops didn't have) and some were equipped with barrels shipped from the UK.
Sometimes they were stamped with fake British markings, to try to keep Norwegian production secret. There was quite a production of illegal STENs in machine shops in Oslo and possibly a few other places. I think I have seen that years ago, on a Mk II that was secretly produced in Norway during WW2. The Mark '2' instead of 'II' is intriguing. But if I were to make a guess, I'd say this particular gun may at some stage have gone through an arsenal rebuild or overhaul and stamped accordingly.
Sorry, can't help you there - I'm Norwegian, not Belgian. He is one of our members from Belgium who watches this board. Perhaps our member 'Balder' can provide some insight.
