A suspect who does not drive or at least has no access to a vehicle was able to conceal, for all time, where he purchased both the very common revolver
ammunition, as well as the much more rare rifle ammo. Left behind on the sixth floor are only a poorly concealed rifle and one empty ammo clip.
Three empty rifle cartridges are found at the assumed scene. The rifle's stripper clip had six rounds capacity, along with a possibility of a seventh
round in the chamber.
https://gunsamerica.com/digest/lee-harvey-oswalds-carcano-rifle-shooting-it-today/The suspect, Oswald, either only brought three live rifle rounds to the sixth floor but about eighteen pistol rounds to East 10th St.
or he hid or disposed of several rifle rounds. However, he retained the shorter, excess pistol rounds in a shirt pocket, contents of which
escaped notice until he was a DPD prisoner of several hours.
No pistol, no excess rifle ammo, even for escape from the TSBD by suicide, let alone to possibly shoot his way out of immediate capture
at the TSBD were carried as options, or even in the event of rifle misfire or initial misses of the target? Is their doubt the shooter was capable
of firing a full six shot clip at the target rapidly enough if it became necessary?
No live ammunition or gun cleaning accessories were found at his rooming house, the Paine residence, or at the TSBD.
Were live pistol rounds in his pocket
during initial interrogation? it appears that they were.Prepping his kit for planned November 22 activities, doesn't seem to make much sense.
Oswald carries about 18 pistol rounds, only three Carcano rifle rounds. No trace of rifle ammunition was found at the rooming house.
AI Overview The five live .38 caliber cartridges were found in Oswald's shirt pocket after he was brought to the police station, not during the initial physical arrest at the Texas Theatre. This search and recovery occurred in the basement assembly room of the Dallas Police Department at approximately 4:05 p.m. CST on November 22, 1963, while he was waiting outside an interrogation and lineup room.
https://www.awesomestories.com/pdf/make/134897
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix-10.html
According to the National Archives Warren Commission Report, Oswald was disarmed of his loaded .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver during the scuffle inside the Texas Theatre. The six live cartridges in the pistol and the five additional live rounds discovered later in his pocket matched the description of copper-coated Western .38 Specials.