The Deer gun, developed by the CIA, was a successor to the Liberator pistol. The single-shot Deer gun was intended for distribution to South Vietnamese guerrillas as a weapon against North Vietnamese soldiers. [1]

Apr 23, 2014 · CIA Deer Gun, single shot pistol in 9mm Parabellum, on the collectors market. Get yours at a 628,500% mark-up.

Apr 27, 2021 · The Altor Pistol is a single shot 9mm handgun that is strikingly similar to the CIA's Deer gun. Similar, but much better in design.

Oct 6, 2019 · Instead of being stamped like the Liberator, this would be made primarily form a single aluminum casting, and chambered for 9x19mm. It was loaded by unscrewing the barrel and manually inserting a...

Jul 1, 1998 · Conceived as the Vietnam generation’s version of World War II’s Liberator pistol, the CIA Deer Gun was a simple, single shot 9mm pistol designed to bring better weapons to our partisans. The late major Dick Meadows, a U.S. Army Special Forces icon, explained the concept to me about 15 years ago.

Oct 6, 2019 · The Deer Gun is a covert CIA pistol inspired by the Liberator. In fact, the initial desire was to pull Liberators out of storage to use in the 1950s, but out was found that they had all been scrapped in 1947/8. So instead, a new gun was designed with the …

Feb 20, 2020 · Deer Gun. The Deer gun’s story from the Vietnam era is such an unknown part of history that debate surrounds the proper spelling and origin of the name. For what it’s worth, the former curator of the CIA Museum told me that it’s spelled “D-e-e-r,” not “D-e-a-r.”

Jul 7, 2016 · Designed in the early 1960s to be the “Liberator 2.0” of sorts, the Deer Gun was intended by the CIA to be supplied to guerilla fighters in South Vietnam. The gun consisted of a cast aluminum frame featuring molded cross-hatching on the grip panel, two blued 1.8” barrels (one rifled; one smoothbore), a conical shaped cocking knob, and no ...

Oct 20, 2021 · Designed by the clandestine bubbas at the CIA, the Deer gun maintained the same idea as the Liberator. A guerilla could use the Deer gun to sneak up on an enemy soldier and eliminate him. Our partisan could then recover their enemy’s weapon and equipment and have a respectable loadout.

May 25, 2018 · On May 22nd the NRA Museum, in Fairfax, Virginia, received a very special donation, a Vietnam War-era CIA Deer Gun. The pistol was donated to the museum by Thomas Ring, a former Master Armorer. Mr Ring donated both an original condition Deer pistol and a tool room prototype replica that he made himself.