Its .45 ACP pistol cartridge was discharged from an unrifled barrel, thus greatly reducing its intrinsic and practical accuracy alike and being intended for short-range use—ideally, one to four ...

45 caliber firearms of WWII would be complete a discussion of what the late great gun writer Dean A. Grennell referred to in his 1989 book The Gun Digest Book of the .45, as “The Weirdest ...