Important factual information about the alleged murder weapon.
Walt
shot rifle.... by placing one cartridge at a time in the rifle and
firing it as is possible with the vast majority of bolt action
rifles.
The Mannlicher Carcano CANNOT be used as a single shot rifle NOR CAN
IT BE USED WITHOUT AN AMMUNITION CLIP. The clip loaded with
cartridges is an integral component of the rifle. The clip holds the
cartridges so they can be served up to the bolt as the bolt is
retracted. The spring follower beneath the cartridges pushes the
cartridges up out of the clip until the last round is stripped from
the clip by the forward stroke of the bolt, whereupon the clip
becomes
free to drop out of the bottom of the rifle, and the magazine is
ready
to accept a new clip of six live rounds.
Here's why this information is critical....... IF that rifle had
been
fired from the so called "Sniper's Nest" at the time of the murder
that clip should have been laying on the floor with the spent shells.
The FBI and the Warren Commission said that Oswald had fired three
rounds in 5.6 seconds and killed JFK. The rifle CANNOT be accuraely
fired that fast..PERIOD!! But more important is the fact that NO
CLIP
was found on the floor of the so called "Sniper's Nest". IF there
were four cartridges in a Mannlicher Carcano (as the FBI claimed) and
three of them are fired and the fourth is chambered in the firing
chamber then there is NOTHING to hold the clipin the rifle. At the
moment that last round is stripped from the clip by the closing of
the
bolt that clip drops out of the rifle. Since three spent rounds were
found on the floor the bolt had to have been opened to extract the
third round, and by this action the fourth and last round would have
been stripped from the clip.
The FBI knew all of this .....but lead the Warren Commission to
believe the rifle had been the murder weapon by LYING about how the
weapon operates.