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Old 08-10-2018, 02:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Hondo44 View Post
Good point!

I've always felt the commission didn't understand the concept of a revolver being re-chambered for a similar but different cartridge. They couldn't get past the seeming anomaly of a barrel that read 38 S&W but cases that read 38 Special.
If you read the excerpt from the Warren Commission report which I attached to my post #7 in the old thread linked above, it is clear they had a detailed and throrough understanding of the difference between the .38 S&W and the .38 Special and the consequences of the re-chambered cylinder on Oswald’s gun.

And they knew that even though there actually was no full caliber stamp visible on Oswald’s barrel due to the shortening.

They discuss the difficulties for the forensic identification of the Tippet bullets caused by the .38 Special bullets passing through the slightly larger diameter of the ex-BSR’s .38 S&W barrel, and comment on the fact that the revolver had been re-chambered, but not re-barreled.

I’m pretty sure the Commission’s experts understood Oswald’s gun quite well.

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