Liberator

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My understanding is that although several thousand of these were bilt, none were actually ever used in combat. The theory behind these was drop them in with a box of ammo and use them to get ahold of a real weapon from an enemy combatant.

It's been years since I've owned one or studied up on them and my memory could be wrong in this respect. One thing I do vividly recall was you had to be within about 10' to hit anything with it and it had about a 10# trigger pull.

A kin to the liberator was a shotgun that was made during the war which I recall was used in limited numbers in the philipines. It too was a single shot and crudely made, dropped into rebel areas with the same intent: that it be used to secure a real weapon.