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| The only question I have is why LHO stopped at three rounds. The Carcano magazine holds six rounds. |
Oswald only had four bullets available to him for his evil deed of murder on 11/22/63.
His Carcano clip wasn't filled with six bullets that day. He only had four. And one live round was in the chamber when the police found the rifle. And no other rifle bullets were discovered anywhere after the shooting among Oswald's personal effects (not at the Paine house or in Oswald's rented room in Oak Cliff).
That last point about Oswald's meager supply of ammunition has prompted some conspiracy theorists to speculate that Oswald didn't really own and possess Carcano Rifle #C2766 at all in 1963...but, instead, the rifle and the bullets were
planted into evidence by evil, unnamed plotters.
Such a crazy theory ignores this document from the sporting goods company where Oswald purchased the rifle in March of '63 (under his alias of A. Hidell):
And there are many conspiracists who actually believe that Carcano bullets were not available to the general public
at all in 1963....which is a really silly theory, considering the fact that we know that mail-order companies like Klein's in Chicago were selling Mannlicher-Carcano rifles
and the ammunition that goes into those Carcano weapons.
In fact, the very ad that Oswald used to buy his rifle in March '63 also advertised boxes of
"6.5mm. Italian military ammo; 108 rounds" for $7.50. Oswald didn't order his bullets directly from Klein's, but the Klein's ads (like
this one from November 1963) verify that Mannlicher-Carcano bullets were certainly readily available to purchase in the year 1963.
Plus, it stands to reason that companies like Klein's wouldn't even be selling Carcano rifles if there was no way for anybody to use them due to a total lack of bullets to put into them. For some reason, this basic common-sense fact seems to have escaped many of the conspiracy theorists.
