So much nonsense it is hard to know where to start. Oswald did not order this rifle intending to assassinate JFK. He had no clue when he ordered the rifle that JFK would ever come to Dallas or that he would happen to be working in a building overlooking the motorcade. He intended to use it to assassinate Walker. He used an alias to do so. Covering his tracks to the best of his ability. He never intended the rifle to be found in his Walker scenario and it was not. So it worked out fine in that instance. He had no similar option in the JFK assassination to get away with the rifle. He didn't just walk a couple of blocks to a bus. He left within minutes. Got a cab for the first time. Not even pausing to ascertain what was going on. Even after a police officer pulled a gun on him. Oswald was in full flight murdering a police officer. Flight doesn't mean he was running away in a panic as some CTers mistakenly suggest constitutes flight. He was leaving the scene of a crime to avoid apprehension (i.e. flight). No proof that he owned a rifle? LOL. There are pictures of Oswald holding it. Documents that confirm that the same rifle found at his workplace was the one sent to him via a matching serial number. His prints are on the rifle. It is difficult to understand how there could be any more evidence absent a time machine. What evidence do you believe we should have that we do not under that circumstances that would satisfy you of Oswald's ownership of the MC rifle?
Upon reviewing old posts about this rifle---That has to be the silliest.
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"Covering his tracks to the best of his ability"<<<< Does this poster ever preview his own blather? Supposedly, Oswald ordered said rifle in the name of Hidell which could apparently be quite easily traced to him. Supposedly, he had Marina take pictures of him with rifle, pistol, and a communist publication which were generated around the world.
Apparently, in his zeal to cover his tracks--Oswald disposed of all his ammunition except the four bullets that were supposedly employed in the alleged shooting at the motorcade and the ammunition that was utilized in the alleged shooting of a cop. There has never been a believable explanation regarding the absence of ammunition in the so called Oswald arsenal.
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"So much nonsense it is hard to know where to start."<<< As usual, Mr Smith starts with the decades old heralding of the Warren Report.
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He didn't just walk a couple of blocks to a bus".<<< ? What does that mean?
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" Documents that confirm that the same rifle found at his workplace was the one sent to him via a matching serial number."<<< Documents can't be forged?
Research indicates rifles were shipped with serial numbers that had been removed from them.
WHAT SERIAL NUMBER? C2766 WHERE ARE YOU? Harry D. Holmes lied about postal procedures and the WC accepted that lie as fact. A week after the assassination Harry D. Holmes was quoted in a New York Times article where he stated:
"No one other than Oswald was authorized to receive mail at that box".
Holmes could not have made this statement unless he had seen Part 3 of Oswald's application form after the assassination.
It was 24 hours before the alleged assassination weapon ceased to be a Mauser and became a Carcano.
Article here --
http://www.oocities.org/whiskey99a/carcano.html