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Thread #98605 Message #1958638
Posted By: Bob Bolton
06-Feb-07 - 12:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: Cell guns
Subject: RE: BS: Cell guns
G'day bubblyrat,
Without digging round to find WW2 reference books, I think you're wrong on all three points:
The Welrod was a silenced, single shot, .22" assassination weapon,
The .45" smoothbore pistol was American-made (in a car headlamp factory... ?) and dropped in quantity to French Maquis area, with 5 spare rounds stashed in the handgrip - and
De Lisle, who designed the .45' silenced carbine (made up from damaged .303" SMLE frames) also designed a belt buckle pistol housing a Browning .380" semi-auto pistol ... used in the assassination of a German general in occupied Europe.