Word: carcano
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loose laws have repeatedly been defeated, largely due to the efforts of the 1,000,000-member National Rifle Association. Two years before he became President, John F. Kennedy unsuccessfully sought a ban on imports of foreign weapons?which would have kept out of the U.S. the $12.78 Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle that killed him in 1963. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, declaring that "It is past time that we wipe this stain of violence from this land," testified in favor of a bill to tighten controls on handguns ?such as the .22-cal. Iver-Johnson eight-shot revolver that...
There were also some representatives of that sub-species of gun-owners that refer to Italian Carcano rifles as "Kennedy specials." Some wore Texas boots and baggy jackets with string ties; others just dressed in T-shirts and blue jeans. They tended to wander over to the one dealer who offered surplus military rifles. They debated whether to pay $23.50 for a Mauser rifle of the type used by France's Civil Guards. Or, for $74.50, they could purchase the "hard-hitting and battle tested U.S. M-1 .30 Cal. carbine which wrote the obituary of Nazi and Nip alike...
...Washington museum. The gun that killed Garfield is sous cloche in the Justice Department. The weapon that took McKinley's life is kept by a historical society in Buffalo, where he was shot. Last week the nation was assured that the 6.5-mm. Italian-made Mannlicher-Carcano rifle with which Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy would not end up in a private collection or a public peep show...
...experts said that it was. One FBI agent testified that the cross hairs on the telescopic sight were off just enough to enable the assassin to hit his moving targets without having "to take any lead whatsoever." The Commission's conclusion: "The various tests showed that the Mannlicher-Carcano was an accurate rifle and that the use of a four-power scope was a substantial aid to rapid, accurate firing. Oswald's Marine training in marksmanship...
...made on Nov. 22. They visited the rooming house where he lived, the theater where he was captured, the jail basement where he was shot. At the Texas School Book Depository building, each one went to the sixth-floor spot where Oswald had stood, shouldered the 6.5-mm. Mannlicher Carcano rifle that he had used?and took...