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In article <82Xu02TV302t01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> jmg20@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (  911  James Gouldsbury) writes:
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#      Would any of the readers of this group know if rifles were available
#      in WW2 in West Germany with silencers attached.
#      If so what kind of rifles were they.

West Germany didn't exist during WW2. Back then it was the 3rd Reich. I've
never found any references made to silenced rifles used in Germany. Perhaps
someone else can tell you.

However, there was a rifle used by the British SOE during WW2 that was deployed
in moderate numbers in occupied Europe from 1944 onwards. It was called the 
De Lisle carbine. It was a modified Lee Enfield rifle with an integral
silencer. It was chambered for the .45 ACP cartridge and would group at 
two inches at 75 yards. From all accounts it was a very quiet weapon indeed.

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