I just found it odd that some claim Lee Harvey Oswald used a Mauser including a rogue DPD officer who died mysteriously a short time later.
Is it true as Michael Savage said in a video that the gun used was not easily taken apart (for concealment) or put back together?
Thanks.
I believe the “official” report says that it was an Italian Carcano rifle.
But these days, who knows anything for certain anymore?
Oswald used a Carcano.. Considered notoriously crappy.. Might have been Mauser style.. it was Italian..
The alleged JFK assassination weapon was an Italian war surplus 6.5mm Carcano rifle. The action was German designed by Mannlicher. The pistol used to kill Dallas police officer Tibbits was a .38 Special manufactured by Smith & Wesson if memory serves me correctly.
“...found it odd that some claim Lee Harvey Oswald used a Mauser including a rogue DPD officer who died mysteriously a short time later.”
The Carcano rifles, including the M91/38, were not directly licensed by Mauser, but they were influenced by various bolt-action designs, including those from Mauser. The Carcano series was developed by the Italian arms manufacturer Fucile Carcano, and while it shares some design elements with Mauser rifles, it is a unique design in its own right.
Oswald used an Italian Carcano.
Of course, the rifle attributed to Oswald was made by Mannlicher-Carcano, an Italian company. In a sense though, it was also a Mauser in that it had a Mauser type bolt action design and even some German Mauser parts, albeit in a slightly smaller caliber and with a different cartridge feed system.
As it was, the discovery of Oswald's rifle in the Texas School Book Depositary was marked by urgency and confusion. When the rifle was found, a knot of law enforcement officers clustered about waiting for crime techs and their superiors to arrive. With only a cursory view, someone declared that it was a Mauser. This essentially meant bolt action, as distinct from a gas operated semi-automatic rifle like a WW II US Army carbine or Garand rifle.
The harder point for the Warren Commission account is that Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano was not easy to operate and was not especially accurate. Before JFK's assassination, a then teen cousin of mine bought the same model rifle from the same supplier as Oswald. It was so inaccurate that my cousin immediately concluded and remains convinced that JFK must have been killed by a conspiracy.
At approximately 1:11–1:14 p.m.,[28] Tippit was driving slowly eastward on East 10th Street — about 100 feet (30 m) past the intersection of 10th Street and Patton Avenue — when he pulled alongside a man who resembled the police description.[29][30] Oswald walked over to Tippit's car and exchanged words with him through an open vent window.[31] Tippit opened his car door and began walking to the front of the car. Oswald then drew his handgun and fired four shots in rapid succession. Three bullets hit Tippit in the chest, and as he lay on the ground, another shot hit his right temple, killing him instantly. Tippit's body was transported from the scene of the shooting by ambulance to Methodist Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:25 p.m. by Dr. Richard A. Liguori.[11]