Now it's my turn to enter the thread and defend the suitability of the Mannlicher-Carcano M91/38 rifle used in the assassination.
Simply put: They're actually nice rifles. It fires a ripping powerful cartridge and their actions are typically butter-smooth. The Italians have a tradition of making fine military firearms going back centuries. Italians just do not make crappy guns. They will perform to shoot 1"-2" groups at 100 meters, which means a dead simple series of shots at the JFK assassination range of 44 and 88 yards. Mannlicher-Carcano M91/38s were just sold inexpensively as military surplus to the American public. That's their only sin, that they were sold cheaply.
Every single silly conspiracy theory regarding the JFK Assassination eventually gets around to insisting that Oswald could not possibly have made the shots he did. It's not true at all.
All the silly conspiracy theories regarding the JFK Assassination are ~caused~ by the silly Warren Report theories that Oswald could have made the 'magic bullet' shots as alleged.
It's highly doubtful that Oswald would have been convicted from the evidence presented.