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Hi Folks! I may have an opportunity to pick up a Group Industries 1918A2. My most local range only allows full auto if it is suppressed. I do understand the muzzle threads aren't standard, but that should be an easy thing to work around. How is the BAR as a host for a suppressor? On the surface, it seems pretty favorable seeing that is has threads & is gas operated with adjustable gas. Have any of you tried this? My only hesitation would be if it were a detriment to the gun for obvious reasons. What are the potential pitfalls? Thank you!

Thank you all for the validation in that it's strange. I suppose it is possible I just haven't noticed it, or it happened with a single "event" that went unnoticed. I was able to gentle coerce the area back into shape and I'm going to keep an eye on it. I have spare bolts so I may as well swap it per the suggestion just incase there is some unknown/undeterminable issue there.

Hello! I have a transferable MKII that is a DLO tube. Over the course of my fairly brief ownership of about 2,500 rounds or so I've noticed the charging handle slot is egging out near where the bolt handle rests when closed, photo below. I'm wondering if this is normal and will stop or if this is a problem? I appreciate your thoughts.

Gents, I recently escaped a life time in New Jersey and to celebrate I've bought myself a transferable Sten gun. I picked up a chinese marked Long Branch kit built on a DLO tube. From my research, I would think this gun was built by DLO themselves and was not a DLO tube built elsewhere. I believe this because the trigger housing is marked DLO, but please let me know if your opinion differs. I bought the gun on gunbroker via Midwest Tactical and I think I did alright for myself. I was drawn to the long branch heritage as my wife is Canadian. https://www.gunbroker.com/item/892299036 Anyways, my big question revolves around reloading for the Sten & suppressing it. I am an experienced reloader and have a Dillon 650 which allows me to produce 9mm at a very reasonable pace. My current 9mm load is a 147 grain FMJ over 3.2 grains of Bullseye which gets me around 870 FPS from a ~4.5" barrel. I suspect this load is too light but if necessary I'd like to just up the powder charge and keep the same projectile. My understanding is that the Sten is pretty much indifferent as far as bullet weights goes, as long as there is enough energy. Is that true? Taking my load strategy into consideration, I'm always going to be subsonic even without a integral suppressor and ported barrel. Because of this, I think going with an integral suppressor is just going to be added cost and reduced flexibility for not a whole lot of gain. Do you think that by using 147 grain projectiles Ill get similar results with a big, regular 9mm thread-on can? Being able to use one can for multiple 9mm platforms is very attractive to me. I was looking at the Bowers Vers 9 in particular. Thank you for your thoughts!