The most infamous rifle in American history.
The Carcano rifle is unremarkable as a firearm. If one hadn't been used to kill JFK, nobody would even remember it.
It’s a 130-year-old, mass-produced military rifle first made when bolt actions were the hot new tech. By the mid-20th century, it wasn’t being used by any military. It was considered obsolete and underpowered for a bolt gun, and you could buy one in the U.S. from a mail-order catalog for less than $20 in the early 1960s.
It was that availability that landed a Carcano rifle in the hands of Lee Harvey Oswald, and suddenly this out-of-date, all-but-forgotten Italian service bolt gun became the most infamous rifle in American history on Nov. 22, 1963, when it was used to assassinate President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
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