OK. That’s more than I knew about Oswald’s Carcano.
They didn’t do background checks back then, there was no NICs program, so I don’t know why he would have had to buy a gun with an assumed name other than his being stupid and paranoid.
The fact remains that Garands weren’t expensive and that was all I was taking issue with.
I found a milsurp forum post where a guy talked about him and his father going to a DCM shoot in 1968 and qualifying to buy two Garands (I guess there were requirements prior to 1978). They paid $90 dollars for the two rifles. Said he still had the paperwork.
Monetary inflation. How old are you? The dollar has been destroyed. It’s all relative. Garands were never cheap. Ever.
$20 in 1963 was a nice chunk of change. Not huge money, but Oswald was poor.
Everyone looks at old catalogs.”sure wish I could go back in time and buy that for twenty bucks!”
OK. The catch? Ya gotta use silver dollars, etc. See where I’m goin’ with that?
so I don’t know why he would have had to buy a gun with an assumed name other than his being stupid and paranoid.
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Consider the fact that he had defected to the Soviet Union. At the height of the Cold War. He was some kind of spook asset, voluntary or not, doesn’t matter.
He was being watched upon his return to the USA. Guaranteed. Whether he was “paranoid” is another matter, but he would have had some indication. He was a member of subversive organizations upon return.
This is why these discussions are unproductive, because so much that is “known” about the JFK murder just ain’t so. “The rifle was junk” etc.
The cemetaries are FULL of people killed with crappy weapons.