@@EmoBoiLinkWell, it would be fitting for the spirit of the Liberator. The whole idea of the Liberator was to be a one shot wonder. You kill the other guy, take their gun and use it. It was never meant to be a main sidearm. It was a cheap resistance ditch firearm. Thus making it out of 3D printed parts and using some metal for the key parts. The 3D replica of a Liberator would be, one likely far cheaper, and two, fitting in that spirit of being a one shot, ditch, steal, and keep fighting. Even if you COULD reload it. It was more of a hassle than it was worth.
@@Qardo I know; but there’s something about making a one shot deal throwaway weapon that bothers me and idk why. But I’ll def give it a shot. (Pun intended).
From the looks of it, " throwing it at the enemy and running around trying to find a different weapon while being shot at" looks to be faster than reloading😅😅😂
@@astonedwalrus4183yes but he also added the little known fact that these Liberators were used to kill an enemy sentry so that you could steal their weapon and ammo for yourself.
Make it so reloading has a randomized timer, so sometimes you'll reload in 3 seconds, sometimes you reload in 6 seconds, and any length in between. Maybe even a tiny percent chance where you drop your bullet
@@grimsladeleviathan3958i feel like people would just complain about it being rng. i feel like itd be better and more stressful to have to manually do each step so that the player is more worried about reloading correctly instead of hoping for rng. could just be me though idk
@@kalimbasax2108 depends on the genre, whether they complain or not. Horror game players usually don’t care so much about RNG and fighting mechanics as these things aren’t in the foreground when playing such a game. On the other hand, manually reloading each step like you suggested could actually add to the game, as the nervousness leads to mistakes, leads to you dropping the bullet and having to look on the ground to pick it up, only for whatever is chasing you to get close while you weren’t looking.
@@hooks_and_horns yes in the 69th regiment of the french afrikan artillery Jokes aside a see a lot of ppl telling that kind of stories (they're false) so i was mocking them 👍🏻
It's okay, I was doing work on an abandoned house that caught on fire and found a $14,000 rollex... that I broke... I had it in my pocket when I got out of my car, and it landed face down, breaking the faceplate and knocking the tick out of rhythm.... I hate myself.
My Great grand father whose still with us ran supplies for the resistance and STILL has his Liberator, he kept it as a trinket and has it set to bequeath to me in his will He keeps it stashed away as a home defence gun and apparently even in his mid 90's he can still fire it with decent accuracy from the porch across the front yard for foxes on his property in Bordeaux
@@writerconsidered the intent was to give somehting to the public that was cheap enough and easy enough to mass produce to give them even the slightest fighting chance against the enemy as qukcly as possible. Wars most of the time aren't won by soldiers, but by logistics. It is highly speculated that one of the many factors why Germany lost the second world war was because the U.S. was able to produce more sherman tanks than germany could repair any panzers or tigers. Sometimes having "good enough" out in the field is better than the "best" stuck in the shop unable to get it out in the field.
Correct, also the fact that if a bunch of these were captured by the enemy it would be no issue at all, as they are only really useful as a resistance tool to get better kit :)@@pyronic120120
A lot of them aren't really safe to fire long term considering how cheaply they were made. Ian McCollum on the channel "Forgotten Weapons" did a good video on this and explained in detail.
It wasn't only cost that was important, low quality was equally, if not more important. They knew a lot of them would get intercepted, and they didn't want to arm their enemy with practical battlefield weapons.
There was one recorded instance of a Liberator being used, specifically it was recorded by the Germans. A cafe waitress used one to shoot a German officer, killing him. After WW2, the Brits dumped their supply of the pistols into the ocean, but the Americans shipped their remaining supply to various nations in SEA, where they typically ended up being carried by police as backup guns.
if i remember correctly, they werent widely distributed because it was expensive, and by the time they had a stockpile and the plan approved, D-Day had already happened so there wasnt really a need for them anymore the CIA later asked if they could have them, but by then the pistols were disposed of, so they made the Deer gun, which forgotten weapons on youtube has a great video on
@@EinfachFredhaftGaming yes but its the best option if you want a firearm in a country with strict gun control laws and dont wanna resort to the black market.
I’m pretty sure that I heard this somewhere; these where probably used as a pistol to for civilians and liberators to kill an enemy and take their weapon
then what's the point of building in the ability to carry extra bullets? Just put in a second barrel, and have the people carry multiple guns like a pirate
@@GameFuMaster So you can test fire it before an attempt? So if you do it at range and don't kill them you can run and try again? ETC. Not everyone is going to have the guts to walk up to an armed soldier and shoot them point blank with a gun they have never even fired before.
@@Artyomthewalrus or carry multiple guns? "Run and try again" sounds like there's even a chance to run. This weapons is probably something you'd use just outside of baseball bat range
Imagine in thousands of years some deep sea diver pulls out his future scanning device thing, and just sees a mountain of old hand guns, if there's no records left from our time how would you even begin to investigate where that came from?
If I know records I'm going to assume this includes videos that we just watched here. Which would honestly suck. If there are no records of the time then they would forget a whole lot than just this. Between this little comments about the future, and this video, it really reminds me just how much we humans need to do a better job at preserving every little thing we've ever done on this planet or created on this planet. You can easily be forgotten within the next hundred years or so if not properly recorded. Nevermind thousands.
Flimsy sheet metal pistols turn to brown mush in sea water in a matter of weeks. These wont be the subject of future archaeology. The thing future people will struggle with is nuclear reactor fuel rods.
@@HK47_115we've only been writing for around 5,000 years, most of what has been written has been lost, writing wasn't widespread between different peoples for most of its existence, and we have lost the ability to understand certain langiages even with writing. Actual, verifiable accounts of anything is honestly pretty rare.
they would just look at the rest of the sea from a similar time period and conclude a conflict, thousands and thousands upon thousands more planes, ships, guns/cargo/munitions/tanks... just think if WW2 never happened how much the overall chemistry of the ocean would be different simply because of how much less vehicles would be rotting away in it
“No written record”??? “D-Day from the German Perspective” features an interview with a former soldier who saw firsthand the results of one being used by a French maid. She even left it behind in her flight, he mentioned that it was a crude gun that couldn’t even reload without great difficulty, requiring the user to pry the cartridge out with a stick. That only matches one gun in that era that a maid of all people would have gotten her hands on.
@@stevengrimes371 that was the purpose, yes, but it also made for an excellently terrible assassin’s gun because it was so disposable and there really wasn’t much way to prove or even deduce who used it unless they were caught with them.
Man I love this series, I remember being nearing middle school when I first tried the fourth game of the series, once I was able to buy it two years later I fell in love with it from then on
There were only 14 FP45's ever produced by EMD, from 1967 to 1968. They were 72'4" long and were powered by a 645-series V-20 producing 3,600 hp. Nine went to the Santa Fe for their Super Chief service while the remaining five went to the Milwaukee Road. All the MILW units were retired and scrapped by 1984, while the ATSF units continued in service as re-geared and upgraded freight units into the 1990's, with seven preserved in museums, one of them operational.
@@lovelessissimo There's a reason they didn't actually make all that many. You could make a half dozen of them for the cost of a 1911, but the performance isn't really worth that. But it's still dirt cheap for a weapon.
Yes they are practically useless for real self defense, yes they are cheaply made and are known to fall apart after only a handful of rounds are fired through them, yes I want one.
Apparently there was a plan for a Liberator Shotgun under the same program, which was basically the same idea as the "jungle shotgun" used in the Philippines against Japanese forces but with 4 barrels. It never saw production. There's an old Forgotten Weapons video on it.
The GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon that is primarily mounted in the United States Air Force's Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. Designed to destroy a wide variety of ground targets, the Avenger delivers very powerful rounds at a high rate of fire. The GAU-8/A is also used in the Goalkeeper CIWS ship weapon system, which provides defense against short-range threats such as highly maneuverable missiles, aircraft, and fast-maneuvering surface vessels. The GAU-8/A is produced by General Dynamics.
My granddad had one in his collection. It was one of the ones we think he sold for a loan to a couple of scammers next door to him. He was devastated when he couldn't find it afterward.
A company manufactured and sold very accurate replicas of the FP-45 Liberator pistol. I forgot what they cost, but it was pretty reasonably priced considering that the assembly line had to be tooled up.
The funny thing is that this concept still exists to this day. Look up the Life Card. Much like this pistol, you have to open up a storage, pull out a round, and load it manually.
