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@joseph “The Guns of Dealy Plaza — There were/are more than 3 different rifles cited as being found, and being the “murder weapon.” (* In fact, due to my own knowledge in this field, I can tell whats real, whats nonsense just by “hearing a definition” of a weapon. [the following are the way “the rifle/murder weapon” was described by the press in the first hours after the JFK Assassination- The Gun That Didn’t Smoke
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identified it as a British Enfield .303. KLIF radio said it was a 7.65 German Mauser. KRLD radio announced that the rifle was “presumed to be a .25 caliber high
reported a German Mauser or a Japanese rifle. Dallas television station WFAA described it as three different kinds of Mauser: a “German Mauser,” a 6.5 “Argentine
“Argentine Mauser” with a four-power scope, and a 7.65 “Mauser.” Dallas NBC-affiliate television station WBAP’s continuous coverage between 12:56 p.m. and… [so, you can see? people get excited and talk “sh8t”…….] The fact of the matter, that if you look at the bullet/s presented (the 6.5 Carcano) is a weird looking, over-ly long cylindrically shaped blunt nose, copper jacketed lead core bullet. The rifle, IS an Italian Carcano ;slang; and technically; > Carcano is the frequently used name for a series of Italian bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating military rifles and carbines. Introduced in 1891, this rifle was chambered for the rimless 6.5×52mm Carcano cartridge (Cartuccia Modello 1895).
NOTE————> ******* Although this rifle is often called “Mannlicher–Carcano”, especially in American parlance, neither that designation nor the name “Mauser–Parravicino” is correct. Its official designation in Italian is simply Modello 1891, or M91 (“il novantuno”). *********************