That’s what I never figured out. You could buy surplus Garands cheap back then. He was trained on it or the M-14 version.
No, they were not cheap back then. Oswald was poor. A Garand might have been what, fifty bucks? Minimum wage was maybe $1.25 then. So he bought the twenty dollar rifle. It would be the difference today, between buying a $700 rifle and a $200 rifle, something like that. It still goes bang, gets the job done.
“That’s what I never figured out. You could buy surplus Garands cheap back then. He was trained on it or the M-14 version.”
Why did he pick the Carcano? Easy, he was a dusty brokie dude and the Carcano was dirt cheap.