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He was killed accidentally. He jumped off a vehicle and his Sten gun… they didn’t have a safety lock on them at that time… He jumped down and the bullet went up [through] his neck.
Bruce Coombes, a PIAT gunner with 6th battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, describing the accidental death of one of his platoon from an accidental discharge. The Sten fired from an open bolt and only had a safety notch at the rear of the receiver.
Coombes describes a textbook accidental discharge for a Sten (or other similar open bolt guns). When the bolt was forward on an empty chamber, in the closed position, if the butt sharply impacted against a hard surface, like the ground or part of a vehicle, or even simply by inertia and the jolt of a soldier jumping from a vehicle or off a wall the bolt could be jarred back far enough to chamber a round with the bolt travelling forward firing the round.
Sten MkIII (source)
Troops were taught to carry the Sten with the bolt either in the safety slot/notch or with the bolt forward and their hand behind the cocking handle to prevent it being jarred back. Of course the cocking handle could be jarred out of the safety slot/notch resulting in a similar accidental discharge. These issues were later addressed by the introduction of a bolt handle safety (officially known as the safety cocking handle). The bolt handle could be pushed inwards so a small lug projected out through a small hole in the other side of the receiver to lock the bolt in in place.
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