The rifle Oswald should have used

[Gerry Down]

Oswald was trained in the M1 which could rapid fire bullets. If Oswald was the assassin, how come he didn't purchase one of these instead?

The M1 is 10 times better than the Carcano

[Gerry Down]

One reason Oswald might have chosen the Carcano over the M1 is if only the Carcano could take hard-tipped bullets that would go through the limos bubble top roof more easily. A soft nosed bullet would not go through the bubble top as easily.

This is one genuine reason why Oswald might have chosen the Carcano over the M1 even though it is slower to fire bullets. I don't know enough about rifles however to say that the M1 could not take hard-tipped bullets.

[Joffrey van de Wiel]

One reason Oswald might have chosen the Carcano over the M1 is if only the Carcano could take hard-tipped bullets that would go through the limos bubble top roof more easily. A soft nosed bullet would not go through the bubble top as easily.

This is one genuine reason why Oswald might have chosen the Carcano over the M1 even though it is slower to fire bullets. I don't know enough about rifles however to say that the M1 could not take hard-tipped bullets.

I don't understand your reasoning. Oswald purchased the rifle in March of 1963. Did he at that time already have a premonition that he one day might have to fire through the bubble top?

[Charles Collins]

Oswald was trained in the M1 which could rapid fire bullets. If Oswald was the assassin, how come he didn't purchase one of these instead?

The M1 is 10 times better than the Carcano

The reasons why LHO chose the MC is the same reasons why he chose the pistol. He had limited means, and they were cheap surplus weapons from the WW-2 era.

[Michael T. Griffith]

The whole tale of Oswald as the lone gunman makes no sense. Oswald was highly intelligent. He spoke Russian like a native. He read voraciously. He made it to the second level of photo processing at Jaggars-Stovall. Yet, we are supposed to believe that, instead of just buying a rifle for a cheaper price at a local gun store and leaving no trail but a disputable ID by the gun store worker who sold him the gun--instead of doing this, we're supposed to believe that he ordered a WWII surplus rifle by mail using the fake name Hidell and left a paper trail a mile long back to himself, that he then shot JFK with a fake Hidell ID card in his wallet, that he hid the rifle but left the casings in plain view, that he shot Tippit and again left his casings in plain view (but supposedly "hid" his jacket), and that when he was arrested he still had the fake Hidell ID card on him!

You have to be extremely gullible to buy that tale.

 

[Tim Nickerson]

Oswald was trained in the M1 which could rapid fire bullets. If Oswald was the assassin, how come he didn't purchase one of these instead?

The M1 is 10 times better than the Carcano

Klein's was offering the M1 at the time that Oswald ordered the Carcano. However, the cheapest that they were offering at was $79.95. Oswald opted for the much cheaper Carcano.

[John Mytton]

Klein's was offering the M1 at the time that Oswald ordered the Carcano. However, the cheapest that they were offering at was $79.95. Oswald opted for the much cheaper Carcano.

 



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[Jerry Freeman]

Oswald was trained in the M1 which could rapid fire bullets. If Oswald was the assassin, how come he didn't purchase one of these instead?----The M1 is 10 times better than the Carcano.

According to the Oswald did it believers...The Carcano reigned supreme. One could not have asked for a better weapon. You can fire one with your teeth like Jimi Hendrix and bull's eyed from 300 yards!
Of course no one else ever did it.... but Oswald could [so they say]