The Japanese bought them, the Finns too. The Germans thought enough of them to re-bore captured rifles after Italy’s surrender to their larger caliber, 7.92?
Oswald was making about a buck an hour at the depository, he bought the Carcano from a mail order catalog for about $30, almost a weeks salary.
It was a good rifle and he was a marksman. The Finns flooded the US market starting in the ‘50s with thousands of them, something like Yugo SKSs in the ‘90s.
The Carcano was also the official rifle of the Italian Olympic team...
In the ‘60’s, Mad Magazine did a spoof on mail order ads in the back of magazines.
This one showed a page of ads, one of which was for a genuine German Luger pistol, firing pin has been removed for safety (of course). Then another ad on the same page advertised genuine firing pins for German Luger pistols.