Michael Tinker Pearce
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As it turns out Vintage Ordinance makes a very accurate reproduction of the FP45 Liberator, a pistol designed in WW2 to distribute to resistance fighters behind enemy lines. The idea was they would use it to assassinate an enemy soldier and pick up a more useful gun. Oh, and it's a single-shot .45 ACP. It was meant to come with ten rounds (five of which can be stored in the butt,) a wooden dowel to eject the empties and a cartoon instruction sheet. The only real difference between the Vintage Ordinance FP45 and the originals is that the modern gun has to have a rifled barrel; the original was a smooth-bore. It's cool, and if you ever have a chance to fire one don't. It's painful; the gun weighs about a pound and with a fixed breech. Recoil is a thing.
Oh, and when it recoils the great big striker rebounds and pinches the web of your thumb bad enough to create a blood blister. Ouch.
retail is $520 for the gun, more for the kit that goes with it that reproduces they way it was intended to be distributed. Few of these were ever distributed and most were destroyed. Military commanders did not relish the idea of a post-war with hundreds of thousands of untraceable gun in random civilian hands.
I do not own this gun; it was loaned to me by a collector for a video.
Oh, and when it recoils the great big striker rebounds and pinches the web of your thumb bad enough to create a blood blister. Ouch.
retail is $520 for the gun, more for the kit that goes with it that reproduces they way it was intended to be distributed. Few of these were ever distributed and most were destroyed. Military commanders did not relish the idea of a post-war with hundreds of thousands of untraceable gun in random civilian hands.
I do not own this gun; it was loaned to me by a collector for a video.