[The KG9 Kid]

"... I’m no marksman by any stretch, but hitting Kennedy at least once would have been fairly easy for anyone who could operate a rifle. Even with a POS like that Mannlicher-Carcano."

This is true, but don't bad-mouth the Mannlicher-Carcano. It served as a perfectly good military rifle in it's day: Reliable, accurate, and chambered in a powerful military cartridge.

Italians do not make lousy firearms.

[Ouderkirk]

The Mannlicher-Carcano was strictly for field personnel, it was never intended as a sniper’s rifle.