Fun Fact: During WWII the US created a small, cheap pistol out of sheet metal and pot metal to be dropped to insurgents within European countries under Axis control. The gun was a single-shot pistol, chambered in .45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) and was intended to be recovered be resistance fighters and used to kill an enemy soldier as a means to claim their weapons. It was called the FP-45 "Liberator." The development of this was kept low key and passed off as a flare gun, thus it was referred to as "Flare Projector caliber .45"
My point?
In the MCH storyline, Skysteel Manufactory develops guns to arm the commoners and the peasants of Ishgard to put them on a level playing field as the Ishgardian knights in fighting the threat of the dragons. The title you receive upon completion of the lv 60 quest is "Liberator."
Reference or coincidence?