{"id":2296,"date":"2013-05-12T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/05\/12\/the-real-liberator-pisto\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:59","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:59","slug":"the-real-liberator-pisto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"The “Real” Liberator Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe new Liberator pistol from Defense Distributed<\/a> is gaining<\/a> as much<\/a> attention<\/a> from having<\/a> its 3-D plans removed from their website at the request of the State Department<\/a> as for the plans themselves. I know that I for one downloaded the plans from Pirate Bay just because.<\/p>\n

This got me to thinking about the FP-45 Liberator<\/a> pistol from World War II. It was designed as an insurgent’s weapon with the idea that the resistance fighter would use it to kill a German soldier and take his weapon and ammunition. The original idea was to drop these by the thousands in Occupied Europe. While some did make it to France, more were distributed in China and the Philippines by the Office of Strategic Services.<\/p>\n

In the video below, Phil Schreier, Senior Curator at the NRA National Firearms Museum, discusses the history of the FP-45.<\/p>\n

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