28-06-2014, 06:36 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:Was this frangible bullet widely commercially available in 1963? We have all assumed that Oswald didn't make his own ammo, since he lacked tools and a workshop, and nobody in Dallas that dealt in MC ammo was willing to ID Oswald as a customer.
From what I have been able to uncover, the older style of 6.5mm Carcano frangible bullets would have all been Italian military issue. While it is claimed that a good deal of Carcano frangible ammo was made in 1953 for indoor range shooting, the sources do not say who the manufacturer was.
This type of ammo must have been quite common as, even today, collectors and gun enthusiasts still post photos of these odd looking bullets on gun forums, inquiring as to what they are. I don't imagine it would have been difficult to find Italian made frangible ammo in 1963 in America. Hopefully, being made in 1953, the gunpowder would have been fresher and the primers would no longer be the corrosive types that caused so many problems with Italian milsurp ammo in the Carcanos.
Mr. HILL. The right rear portion of his head was missing. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. His brain was exposed. There was blood and bits of brain all over the entire rear portion of the car. Mrs. Kennedy was completely covered with blood. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not, except for the one large gaping wound in the right rear portion of the head.
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964
Warren Commission testimony of Secret Service Agent Clinton J. Hill, 1964