Presumably an attempt to reduce the cost to manufacture the iconic handgun.
This one is also on display at the Springfield National Armory Historical Site.
Presumably an attempt to reduce the cost to manufacture the iconic handgun.
This one is also on display at the Springfield National Armory Historical Site.
My guess is it was the same idea as the Liberator (conveniently in the bottom left). A cheap gun that could be dropped in occupied cities to arm partisan fighters with something they could use to get a rifle.
The Liberator wasn’t a very good pistol and was single shot. The stamped 1911 might have been an attempt at practicing the ideas behind the Liberator in a semi automatic handgun.
We made ~1 million Liberators but turns out the hard part about arming partisans isn’t making the guns, but getting them to them. I believe most of them never left out hands. Probably a factor in the death of the stamped 1911 program.
Believe that zero Liberators were ever airdropped as originally intended. Not because it was too difficult but because it was a waste of a bomber mission.
I’m not arguing with you, just thinking out loud why and how this handgun idea ever materialized into more than a paper suggestion.
Yeah, it was definitely a ‘good on paper’ type idea. The only other possible explanation I can think of is export sales to poorer countries.