The Liberator was a single shot pistol. It does look like a small automatic but it isn't. You had to punch the spent round out of the barrel with the supplied wooden dowel. Grips just held extra ammo but not all the 10 rounds supplied. Most were destroyed after the war. Yes, it was designed as a throw away firearm where you used it to obtain the more effecient enemies weapon (hence the term battlefield recovery)
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