Did Captain Fritz show Mr Oswald a Mauser?

[Bill Chapman]

Really sorry Mitch
You've got the same avatar as Richard Smith.
My bad

Neither of them that good-looking 

[Dan O'meara]

Hi Mitch,

Do you think the Carcano could be mistaken for a 'sporterized' Mauser?
Does the Carcano look 'sporterized' in any way?

[Mitch Todd]

Hi Mitch,

Do you think the Carcano could be mistaken for a 'sporterized' Mauser?
Does the Carcano look 'sporterized' in any way?

No. The Carcano is a stock military bolt-action rifle, and it looks the part. I can't see how anyone who knows what a sporter is would think the Carcano is a sporter.

[Walt Cakebread]

No. The Carcano is a stock military bolt-action rifle, and it looks the part. I can't see how anyone who knows what a sporter is would think the Carcano is a sporter.

 The Carcano is a stock military bolt-action rifle, and it looks the part.

You're right Mitch....Except you forgot that the rifle that was found in the TSBD had a scope mounted.   That scope was NOT standard as issued part of the rifle.  As a matter of fact, The cheap scope was hastily and sloppily attached to the Carcano's that Klein's sold  to enhance  the sales appeal.  In reality that POS scope was a hindrance to the firing of the rifle ...It DID NOT enhance the accuracy or the utility of the rifle in any way.    However that scope was great for duping the gullible public.  The police investigators boldly  proclaimed that the rifle was a deadly accurate weapon with a telescopic sight.

[John Iacoletti]

The conspiracy believers think the conspirators could do anything. But they couldn't get Oswald's co-workers to implicate him directly in the assassination. Or get Marina to say he hated JFK. Or get Ruth Paine to say she saw him with a package that morning. Or get Michael to say he saw the rifle. Or get DeMohrenschildt  to say.....on and and on.

We've raised these matters repeatedly with the conspiracy believers. And they can never answer them.

No, "these matters" are ridiculous strawman arguments to deflect from your own inability to prove your case.  I have never come across a single person ever who tried to claim that "the conspirators could do anything".

[John Iacoletti]

Yes, it is amazing.  So many logical inconsistencies.  They must live in an interesting fantasy world.  They often dispute, for example, that Oswald's prints were on the rifle because the authorities had control of the evidence and could make up any findings they wanted.

Who are you trying to fool?  There were some prints in the trigger guard area that were insufficient for identification purposes, and a single partial palmprint showed up a week later on an index card.

[Walt Cakebread]

Who are you trying to fool?  There were some prints in the trigger guard area that were insufficient for identification purposes, and a single partial palmprint showed up a week later on an index card.

and a single partial palmprint showed up a week later on an index card.

This is not correct.....The so called "palm print was spotted by Lt Day when he was dusting the carcano for prints in the TSBD at about 1:45 that afternoon.   Day spotted what he thought was a palm print in the wooden foregrip of the carcano.  He knew that the wood would absorb the print rather quickly so he used cellophane tape and lifted the print and placed the lift on a 3 X 5 index card . He the jotted down the info that was pertinent to the lift ...11/22/63  "off underside gun barrel near end of foregrip on rifle c2766",  as Tom Alyea watched. Later that night when the DPD was ordered to release all of the evidence to the FBI ...The index card with the cellophane tape "palm print" was released.   It is item number 14 on the evidence list.