I saw this interesting interview with Cody Wilson of DefDist doing an update to his case in federal court over the State Department’s arguments his Liberator 3D printed pistol plans were, once they hit the internet, unregulated arms information leaking out past the country’s borders, which on its face is kinda laughable. I’ve spoken with Wilson several times in months and years past with Guns.com and he is an interesting guy.
In the U.S. military’s more than 100-year flirtation with the Colt 1911, quite a few experimental variants were proposed but never adopted.
How many of these do you recognize?
The Colt 1911 Brastil “Golden Gun”
The sheet metal monstrosity made by GMs Guide Lamp Division
The Cabanne Device 1911– see that nob? Its the holster mount
The guns modded in 1917 to be full-auto-only for use in shooting down the Red Baron. See the sear?
And this guy, who we’ve talked about before.
Cody Wilson, maverick firearms geek behind the printable gun craze is back in hot water again. This time its for the design of his new single shot (single use) Liberator pistol. The thing is, he didn’t even sell it, he gave it away. This brought the ire not of the ATF, FBI, or some other law enforcement organization– but instead, the State Department.
After all the original Liberator was designed as a throwaway ‘gun to get a gun’ that could be dropped to resistance fighters behind enemy lines during World War Two. It seems that some overseas governments may be scared of letting this genie get out of the bottle.
As crazy as it sounds, this is for real.
Read the rest in my article in Firearms Talk.com
Today, we take a look at a reproduction FP45 Liberator pistol. These pistols were originally designed to be scattered across occupied Europe in huge numbers, and literally a million of them were made during WWII. The plans fell through, though, and almost all of them were simply scrapped.