Was the idea with these "Liberator pistols" to drop them loose but in quantity, over enemy occupied countries, in the hope that at least some would get picked up by those who would use them against occupying forces in an effort to capture better weapons from their occupiers? True a significant number would get lost and a significant number may-be found by the occupiers but by sheer weight of numbers at least some should fall into the hands of those apposed to the occupiers. The pistols that got lost in the drop would not really be a problem and the ones captured by the occupiers would also not really be a problem because the occupiers would already have much better weapons. Would these pistols normally survive being tossed out of an aircraft loose or would they need to be packed into a container and dropped by parachute for them to survive the drop in a useable condition?