She's a beaut...

[poak]

Definetly the most "easy on the eyes" handgun I've ever seen...

Take a look yourself:

http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=102275119

[Guest eyebedam]

That Turd needs a good polishing.

[raydog1]

. . . or some lotion. Probably a museum out there that would love that gun.

[Guest Major Pain]

Wow! I didn't realize they had become that expensive. I had seen one a few years back and they wanted $1000 and I thought that was outrageous. I guess some WWII collector will snatch it up---MP

[I_Like_Pie]

Very interesting gun that is! Wonder what happened to them all...there were a LOT of them made.

[Guest DrBoomBoom]

We were going to drop these to the French resistance in such numbers that they'd make the Germans think the entire French citizenry was armed. It was as much a psy op as a method of arming the resistance. I'm not a collector, but one of these would look great on the wall in my studio.

[SHbicycle]

My mom has one in her nightstand and it looks new. my dad got it when he was in the war. I'll have to tell her how much they arr going for.

When I was a kid i just thought it was a toy he got ass a kid.

[Guest Major Pain]

Some guy probably got a case of them army surplus sitting in his garage.----MP

[strob2000]

Saw that same thing on guns & ammo tv or one of those shows. Pretty cool idea to drop them out of planes to arm the people, but painfully slow to load and shoot it looked like.

[Moped]

The idea was for the French resistance to sneak up on a German and shoot him at close range and then take his weapon. This was simply meant to be a hideout gun.

[tn hp]

Like Moped said, primarily a means to an end. They were dropped with 5 or 6 rounds of .45 acp ammo, an instruction sheet with drawings on how to operate and a dowel rod, used to push out the expended round. All of this was contained in the hollow grip and held in place by the grip plate.

[onebad7up]

Like Moped said, primarily a means to an end. They were dropped with 5 or 6 rounds of .45 acp ammo, an instruction sheet with drawings on how to operate and a dowel rod, used to push out the expended round. All of this was contained in the hollow grip and held in place by the grip plate.

That is crazy, but its cool to see how guns have evolved.

[Guest Major Pain]

Could it be the original "bug gun".-----MP

[Guest gcrookston]

Wow! I didn't realize they had become that expensive. I had seen one a few years back and they wanted $1000 and I thought that was outrageous. I guess some WWII collector will snatch it up---MP

Don't be to quick to confuse what this guy is asking and what they are actually selling for... the uneducated collector may come to the plate with the figure he has posted, but inless one of these is stone-mint with the original instructions they don't stir much interest with collectors, and even then only for less than half of this yahoo's asking price. Looking at a couple of his other auctions he's including a lot of intangible cost and pride of ownership in his prices...

Somewhere in my crap I compiled a list of rules for collecting. One of the top 3 is "Never mistake rare for valuable".... This particular Liberator falls under this...

Edited June 18, 2008 by gcrookston

[Guest cartophilis]

Lets it cost 2.40 to have made..................thats over 1000% increase in value.

Crazy gun collecting habit.......

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