Wyatt Burp
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I have the 1963 NRA magazine a month off from the one Oswald ordered his rifle from. The price including shipping is the same. Here's the ad. JFK killed fifty six years ago to the the day.
Lee Harvey Oswald rifle ad
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Did you get the $19.95 model with the scope? I assume he did as he had a scope on the rifle he used. I wish my dad would have had the money and/or wanted some of those guns at those prices. 
Did you get the $19.95 model with the scope? I assume he did as he had a scope on the rifle he used. I wish my dad would have had the money and/or wanted some of those guns at those prices.
No, paid a little more... back in 2017. Felt it was a decent deal, as I didn't have to do the work.
Pretty much identical, minus a slight variation in the eyepiece of the scope (production change).
Similar with the revolver... just the front sight is ramped instead of a half-moon, like on Oswald's.
Texas Star
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That butchered S&W is the gun he used to kill Dallas Officer J. D. Tippit.
I have the correct ad from the February 1963 edition of American Rifleman.
I posted details here on September 20, 2016. If you go to SEARCH and
type Oswald's Rifle Ad it will be the 2nd entry to pop up.
If you want a copy for your trivia collection just send me a stamped
self-addressed envelope and I will send you a xerox copy. crazyphil
330 Oak Circle Boise, Idaho 83713. Free. Not for sale.
One significant difference: The February 1963 ad has a Model 1917
Colt .45 for $29.95
I posted details here on September 20, 2016. If you go to SEARCH and
type Oswald's Rifle Ad it will be the 2nd entry to pop up.
If you want a copy for your trivia collection just send me a stamped
self-addressed envelope and I will send you a xerox copy. crazyphil
330 Oak Circle Boise, Idaho 83713. Free. Not for sale.
One significant difference: The February 1963 ad has a Model 1917
Colt .45 for $29.95
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Ruby had a Cobra....
It kinda tells you that a .38 special with what was probably lead RN bullets can be pretty effective at close range.
Whenever I shoot my J frame, like today, I can't hit beans with the first cylinderful. If I have to use it for defense I'll have to tell the perp to wait until I go shoot some practice shots. The range is only about 8 minutes away, so he wouldn't have to wait long.
It kinda tells you that a .38 special with what was probably lead RN bullets can be pretty effective at close range.
Whenever I shoot my J frame, like today, I can't hit beans with the first cylinderful. If I have to use it for defense I'll have to tell the perp to wait until I go shoot some practice shots. The range is only about 8 minutes away, so he wouldn't have to wait long.
Oh man!
An M1 Carbine for 80 bucks.
An M1 Carbine for 80 bucks.
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Wyatt Burp
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Oswald first used the rifle to try to assassinate two star general right winger Edwin Walker while he was at his kitchen window, the window frame deflecting the bullet. If he was successful he most likely would have not have killed JFK having already satisfied his demented ego and probably ditched the rifle. I think his Russian wife told police later she knew about this. Yes, I believe he acted alone...and Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.
I wonder how long it'll be before the rest of the sealed records are released on the Kennedy assassination - and the subsequent cover up.
The only explanation that ever accounted for all of the shots, all of the forensic evidence, as well as explaining the missing evidence, like Kennedy's brain full of fragments that could be metallurgically match with or excluded from the rounds fired by Oswald is the theory put forward by Howard Donahue and Bonar Meninger in "Mortal Error" and Colin McLaren in "JFK, the Smoking Gun".
In short, the theory holds that rookie Secret Service Agent George Hinkey slipped while climbing on the back seat of the car behind Kennedy's limo in the motorcade. In the process he had a negligent discharge with an AR-15 firing soft point .223 ammunition, which struck Kennedy in the back of the head.
It does all of the following:
1) it explains the impossibly short timing between the second and third shots;
2) it demonstrates that the .223 bullet fired by the AR-15 is 100% consistent with the wound in Kennedy's and the numerous small fragments visible on the X-ray (which would not have happened with the FMJ 6.5 Carcano round);
3) it explains the secret service agent in charge stating "there has been an accident" to Bobby Kennedy (the attorney general at the time) during a call at Parkland Hospital;
4) it explains the insistence of the Secret Service to remove the body from Parkland Hospital prior to an autopsy;
5) it explains the hurried autopsy that was done as well as the excessive direction and intimidation by secret service staff controlling what could and could not be done as well as confiscating all the notes from the autopsy;
6) it explains the missing evidence, such as the autopsy notes, and Kennedy's brain (which contained fragments that could have been matched to the .223 Remington ammo used by the Secret Service, as well as missing footage and pictures by witnesses in Dealy plaza that were never returned or shown in any of the Warren report proceedings;
7) it explains the inconsistency in statements from secret service agents over time, and the complete absence of a statement form Hickey in the Warren report;
8) it explains all the witnesses who smelled gun smoke and/or observed gun smoke at street level and/or reported a gun shot at street level, rather than 5 stories above street level.
It also conforms to Occam's razor by providing the simplest and most straight forward explanation for all the facts with no need for impossible physics and ballistics, or complex conspiracy theories - other than a cover up intended to prevent the public from thinking that Kennedy's death was tragic accident. The irony is that the wound to Kennedy's neck would have almost certainly been fatal, but that wasn't known at the time the coverup was initiated.
The only explanation that ever accounted for all of the shots, all of the forensic evidence, as well as explaining the missing evidence, like Kennedy's brain full of fragments that could be metallurgically match with or excluded from the rounds fired by Oswald is the theory put forward by Howard Donahue and Bonar Meninger in "Mortal Error" and Colin McLaren in "JFK, the Smoking Gun".
In short, the theory holds that rookie Secret Service Agent George Hinkey slipped while climbing on the back seat of the car behind Kennedy's limo in the motorcade. In the process he had a negligent discharge with an AR-15 firing soft point .223 ammunition, which struck Kennedy in the back of the head.
It does all of the following:
1) it explains the impossibly short timing between the second and third shots;
2) it demonstrates that the .223 bullet fired by the AR-15 is 100% consistent with the wound in Kennedy's and the numerous small fragments visible on the X-ray (which would not have happened with the FMJ 6.5 Carcano round);
3) it explains the secret service agent in charge stating "there has been an accident" to Bobby Kennedy (the attorney general at the time) during a call at Parkland Hospital;
4) it explains the insistence of the Secret Service to remove the body from Parkland Hospital prior to an autopsy;
5) it explains the hurried autopsy that was done as well as the excessive direction and intimidation by secret service staff controlling what could and could not be done as well as confiscating all the notes from the autopsy;
6) it explains the missing evidence, such as the autopsy notes, and Kennedy's brain (which contained fragments that could have been matched to the .223 Remington ammo used by the Secret Service, as well as missing footage and pictures by witnesses in Dealy plaza that were never returned or shown in any of the Warren report proceedings;
7) it explains the inconsistency in statements from secret service agents over time, and the complete absence of a statement form Hickey in the Warren report;
8) it explains all the witnesses who smelled gun smoke and/or observed gun smoke at street level and/or reported a gun shot at street level, rather than 5 stories above street level.
It also conforms to Occam's razor by providing the simplest and most straight forward explanation for all the facts with no need for impossible physics and ballistics, or complex conspiracy theories - other than a cover up intended to prevent the public from thinking that Kennedy's death was tragic accident. The irony is that the wound to Kennedy's neck would have almost certainly been fatal, but that wasn't known at the time the coverup was initiated.
Absalom
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Similar with the revolver... just the front sight is ramped instead of a half-moon, like on Oswald's.
Yours looks nicer than most "improved" BSRs I've come across.
But to be identical to Oswald's, besides the front sight you'd also need one which still has the original finish, and was converted by the (so far unidentified) importer/converter who stamped "CAL .38 SPECIAL" on the left frame.
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