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===Pistols=== * '''M1911A1''': [[meme|THE GUN THAT WON TWO WORLD WARS! CHAMBERED IN GOD'S CALIBER OF .45 ACP!]] Jokes aside, it was such a solid and reliable pistol that there's a reason why more than a hundred years later, its still being used by people. Sure its heavy and bulky by today's standards, but compared to contemporaries like the Luger, Nambu, or even the Mauser, the M1911 simply had its shit figured out much sooner than everyone else. It's not an accident that everyone else began copying Browning's designs and abandoning the extremely popular but obsolete designs of the early automatics of the 19th century. * '''M1917 Revolver''': Another leftover from WWI, this revolver chambered in .45 ACP was another rear-echelon/lend-lease gun for when M1911A1s were in short supply. * '''Colt New Service''': A popular revolver model, and one of the few that could chamber .357 Magnum when it was invented. Some officers would purchase them, some enlisted soldiers would receive them secretly in care packages from family and friends. * '''Smith & Wesson Model 10''': Another very popular revolver comparable to the Colt New Service. * '''High Standard HDM''': A .22 caliber, integrally suppressed pistol used mainly by the OSS. * '''FP-45 Liberator''': A single-shot pistol chambered in .45 ACP, this was designed mainly for partisan forces. This thing had such a pathetic range that it was mainly intended for shooting the enemy up close and steal their weapon. While huge numbers of these guns were made, very few had actually been dropped in Europe due to concerns about ongoing assassinations once the war wrapped up. However, their mere existence scared the pants off the krauts.
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