Challenge to Cyril Wecht

[Sean Kneringer]

Sit in a slowly-moving convertible and let an ex-Marine sharpshooter take three shots at you with a MC (using real ammunition) if you think it's such a piece of harmless junk. Does he seriously think it's impossible to kill someone with that "joke" of a rifle from a distance of 88 yards?

[Charles Collins]

Why not open up the challenge to anyone who might think the Carcano not worthy. We might have a few less hair-brained nay-sayers around.

[Sean Kneringer]

With the hands flapping furiously and Borsch Belt/Barnum delivery, Wecht delivers showman-appeal to eager chumps who hang on his every word of conspiracy.

I'm just wondering when a coroner became a weapons expert. Stay in your lane, doc.

[Dan O'meara]

Sit in a slowly-moving convertible and let an ex-Marine sharpshooter take three shots at you with a MC (using real ammunition) if you think it's such a piece of harmless junk. Does he seriously think it's impossible to kill someone with that "joke" of a rifle from a distance of 88 yards?

Where does he say it's impossible to kill someone with the MC?

[Sean Kneringer]

Where does he say it's impossible to kill someone with the MC?

How can you kill someone with an "instrument of love"? He clearly doesn't believe that "surplus" rifle killed Kennedy, so time to put his skepticism to the test.

[John Iacoletti]

I'm just wondering when a coroner became a weapons expert. Stay in your lane, doc.

Same way a urology doctor becomes a weapons expert, I guess.

[Mitch Todd]

Same way a urology doctor becomes a weapons expert, I guess.

The urologist became a "weapons expert" by acquiring examples of the weapons in question and shooting them and testing their effects. What has Wecht done along the same vein?

[Jack Trojan]

Sit in a slowly-moving convertible and let an ex-Marine sharpshooter take three shots at you with a MC (using real ammunition) if you think it's such a piece of harmless junk. Does he seriously think it's impossible to kill someone with that "joke" of a rifle from a distance of 88 yards?

When the FBI tried to duplicate the shots, they needed to add 3 shims to the scope to even hit the target. A sharpshooter would NEVER use a misaligned scope, especially if he planned to assassinate the POTUS.

So, the answer is no, it would not have been impossible to kill someone with that MC, however, hitting a moving target 2 of 3 times including a headshot at 88 yards, looking thru the wonky scope of a crap rifle is so improbable we should be able to rule it out, like Wecht does.