The Liberator pistol
Designed to be as inexpensive as possible, assembled from mostly stamped sheet-metal parts, the Liberator was a single shot pistol chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge the US military was using for standard handguns and submachine guns. It was so cheap that each one set the US government back only $2.40 in 1942 money. A million were made in less than three months during the darkest days of WWII, to be airdropped to Resistance fighters in enemy occupied territory.
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My father-in-law has one of these he's wanting to sell.
It is an original, not a reproduction. He also has all the stories you'd ever want to hear to go with the gun!!