>Ah, I see now — I'd only read about the Liberator, I hadn't seen any
>pictures. Sounded like it was a similar sort of idea. Neither of them
>looks all that safe to use, anyway.

The description of the reproduction makes it sound a bit safer than the originals, which were literally disposable firearms—the idea was that you'd use your Liberator exactly once, to kill a German, and then you'd have the proper gun that he used to have. Although, that said, I'm sure they were perfectly adequate for that purpose. All the descriptions I've seen of them breaking/wearing out in testing or postwar recreational use were after several firings.

It doesn't strike me that firing a Liberator would be terribly recreational, but DGBM. They're intriguing, but $500-$600 seems like a lot of money to pay for a reproduction of a disposable product, even a ruggedized one. (To be fair, it's a hell of a lot cheaper than the few remaining real ones go for.)

That repro packaging is pretty sweet, though.

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