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Lost World War II Pistol – FP45 Liberator
Am Shooting Journal ^
| 8/8/2018
| F Jardim
Posted on 08/08/2018 4:58:29 AM PDT by w1n1
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posted on
08/08/2018 4:58:29 AM PDT
by
w1n1
To: w1n1
I always thought these were vastly over rated in terms of how effective they really were.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:01:50 AM PDT
by
vladimir998
(Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
To: vladimir998
I think they’re meant for and “up closed and personal” shot on a nazi, not from distance.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:05:03 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
(Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.)
To: vladimir998
They were never used. OSS had a million of them made, but never dropped them into France or anywhere else.
Most of them ended up at the bottom of the ocean after WWII.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:09:46 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: carriage_hill; vladimir998
Right.
The idea was to drop an enemy with a more powerful gun and take his or just do damage in a no win situation.
Ladies today carry the equivelent ... small personal self defense weapons designed to drop an attacker right now so she can get away.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:10:53 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Don’t you occasionally post links to an article about this gun?
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:11:32 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: vladimir998
They were a means to acquiring a rifle.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:11:54 AM PDT
by
03A3
(FTNFL)
To: vladimir998
I always thought these were vastly over rated in terms of how effective they really were.They were. The concept was somewhat interesting, but in practice, they were not used.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:12:22 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The New York Times is a racist hate group. It is Propaganazism.)
To: 03A3
They were a means to acquiring a rifle......... but they were never employed.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:13:01 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The New York Times is a racist hate group. It is Propaganazism.)
To: vladimir998
You ask the nice German sergeant for a light for your cigarette. As he fumbles for his captured ronson you blow his brains out and take his MP-40 and his P-38. You then give the liberator to another partisan.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:16:26 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: w1n1
what can a pistol do against an army? let’s be real people./ sarc
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:20:29 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: teeman8r
They,meaning we, need to drop a bunch of these in the streets of tehran.They could start a real party with a bunch of those single shots.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:24:31 AM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
To: w1n1
These things were the cheapest pieces of chit imaginable. Stamped parts, only one round, barrel not even rifled....they were the equivalent of small zip guns.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:27:05 AM PDT
by
FLT-bird
To: FLT-bird
“they were the equivalent of small zip guns.”
Better than a stick or a rock.
14
posted on
08/08/2018 5:35:27 AM PDT
by
READINABLUESTATE
(But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
To: HANG THE EXPENSE
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:37:14 AM PDT
by
teeman8r
(Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
To: w1n1
Looks exactly like an old Spud Gun I had when I was a kid.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:46:44 AM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
To: vladimir998
The first shot it extremely effective.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:47:12 AM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is what I read in the papers.)
To: vladimir998
I always thought these were vastly over rated in terms of how effective they really were.When you are surrounded by troops armed to the teeth and you have nothing...this is much better than a brick.
It was intended to be the means by which resistance fighters would capture a larger, more effective firearm.
Solely intended for up-close and personal...as they did not have a rifled barrel and were single shot.
Where did they go?
After the war, they had much more use as salvage metal...so.
Plus, those that were warehoused were simply moved to the nearest recycler (which we didn't call them that in those days) and used probably to make those wonderful post-war cars that returning servicemen clamored for.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:51:11 AM PDT
by
OldSmaj
(The only thing washed on a filthy liberal is their damned brains.)
To: vladimir998
They were meant to be used for point-blank head shots on a sole enemy; to steal their military grade weapon and ammo. Beyond that they were a terror weapon, and a force multiplier method.
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:57:37 AM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: teeman8r
Much more than you’d logically think....
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posted on
08/08/2018 5:58:52 AM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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