we’ve come a long way from the FP-45 Liberator dropped by the hundreds of thousands into occupied Europe during WWII.

From Wiki: “The weapon was valued as much for its psychological warfare effect as its actual field performance. It was believed that if vast quantities of these weapons could be delivered into Axis occupied territory, it would have a devastating effect on the morale of occupying troops. The plan was to drop the weapon in such great quantities that occupying forces could never capture or recover all the weapons. It was hoped that the thought of thousands of these unrecovered weapons potentially in the hands of the citizens of occupied countries would have a deleterious effect on enemy morale.”

the cost of the Liberator was $2.50 in 1940′s dollars or about $25.00 now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberator_Pistol

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