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From the Michael Chop
Collection
The Liberator
This
little pistol was produced during WW II and dropped to resistance groups
behind enemy lines. It was a cheap, stamped sheet-metal, single shot .45
pistol complete with smooth bore and breech mechanism. The idea was that the
enemy would have no use for it if and when they found it, but the partisans
would be able to take out an enemy soldier and then take his more effective
weapons. It was produced by the Guide Lamp division of GM - the same division
that later made turn signal lamp housings and the like. Some three million
Liberators were made at a rate of 1 ever 5 seconds, making it the only gun in
history that could be made faster than it could be loaded.
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