My 800th parody achieved in 7 mos and 21 days!!! The OSS in 1942 initiated a program to supply underground resistance fighters in Europe and Asia with a crude one-shot pistol that was called the ".45 Flare Projector". It was hand-operated and came with comic-book instructions in a watertight package with 10 rounds at a unit cost of just $2.10 each. A million were made in 3 months by General Motors Lamp-Light Division due to their knowledge of stampings. To load the weapon the operator had to manually pull back the breech and drop a .45 round in and close it, so it was loaded. Then after firing at close range would have to use a pencil or a twig/whatever small to remove the hot cartridege and load another one!!! The Germans found these and actually laughed at the design. Their crude Volkssturm weapons program which came later produced far more advanced crude designs!!! The Germans never used them at all AFAIK. They were considered junk. Amazingly in modern times someone made NEW Liberator Parabellums in 9mm (see below with the original)...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/M1942_liberator.jpg/300px-M1942_liberator.jpg http://pengun.com/NewImages/9%20mm%20liberator%201.jpg