Hey Axxe,If I'm not mistaken, isn't that a Liberator pistol from WW2?
You are correct!
And you know (we will let others guess) who made them.
No! Google answers do not count...LOL
A real honest to goodness 45acp POCKET PISTOL!
Later, Mark
Hey Axxe,If I'm not mistaken, isn't that a Liberator pistol from WW2?
Hey SA,msharley,
WOW. ------ Do you own a LIBERATOR pistol?
(I haven't ever seen one anywhere except in the collection of the Military Police Museum.)
yours, satx
Hey SA,
No sir.
Have had one in my hand (couple WWII re enactors used to come to the Pin Shoots...they had a bunch of goodies)
Never asked to fire it.....LOL About the size of a pack of Camels....
Later, Mark
Hey Axxe,
You are correct!
And you know (we will let others guess) who made them.
No! Google answers do not count...LOL
A real honest to goodness 45acp POCKET PISTOL!
Later, Mark
Hey SA,Mark,
I really would like to find one in the cardboard box with the "cartoon" for my WWII display.
(My Dad was USAAF during WWII & he said that they "air-dropped" several hundred of them to partisan groups that were operating behind German lines. He also said that he wondered if the pistols were actually received/used by the intended parties. )
yours, satx
USA, Retired
He did go to Belgium, but I would bet he never would have said he was from Belgium.Must have been the part that used to be called Belgium
Semiautos......definitely a sign of heathens and atheists.
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Welcome to the Forum!John Moses Browning created the Browning Hi-Power to fix all the problems of the 1911, which he also created. Then Dieudonne Saive perfected the Hi-Power. Something like 65 countries adopted the Hi-Power; a handful adopted the 1911. That said, they're both great guns.
Winchester 1911A1-GO
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We're not talking about this are we? This was a General Officer's (GO?) model (M15), built from existing 1911s by Rock Island Arsenal in the early '70s.
More info here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M15_pistol
The article specifically mentions a high-grade finish.
Understood.First of all, Welcome to TGT. Stop over in the Intro Section and say hello to everyone.
Second, I did know of the M15, but those were designed and built by Rock Island Armory, and were extremely special Commander 1911's.
He spoke specifically of Winchester Repeating Arms making 1911A1's commercially. Nothing I have read in books, or on the internet shows that WRA has ever manufactured a 1911 either commercially, or for the military under contract. The only reference I have found is that WRA was awarded a contract in WW1, but the war ended and the contract was cancelled before they ever manufactured any.