Why did he buy this gun? Any insights /k/?

Probably cheap or he had one on hand and didn't want to bother getting another rifle.

It was cheap and he was a noguns faggot.
>inb4 HURRINES
Most of the people in the armed forces don't know shit about any firearm other than the ones they were trained on.

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>>31499730
>poorfags

>>31499730
So he could say arrivederci

>>31499730
He was familiar with it.

>>31499790
why?

>>31499824
Because he was a marine sniper or at least trained on one and he used one at the time. As simple as that.

>>31499848
ok. did they actually have Italian rifles or just similar rifles?

>>31499848
>US Marine corps used Carcanos
Whew lad.

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>>31499848

>US Marines using an Italian rifle chambered in 6.5

>>31499730
It was cheap. He bought it out of a mail-order catalogue.

The end.

>>31499730
gun was cheap
did what it was supposed to
ammo was cheap

no other reason really, i mean from what i understand Oswald was a cheap ass and lazy

I actually have an answer to this, but take it for what it's worth.

There is a gun store in Los Angeles called Retting's that claims to have sold it to him via mail order.

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*Sigh* Thousands of people buy catalog and mail-order rifles, and nothing bad happens, but one crazy Marine kills the rum-runner living in the White House, and suddenly we gotta ban mail-order guns.

>>31500264
3 things.

The OP is the actual ad from Klein's in Chicago that he ordered the rifle from.

That is in no way an answer to the question of why he bought that particular gun.

Fuck you.

>>31500295
It was cheapest. Even Mosin was more expensive in that catalogue.

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>>31499848
Are you retarded?

>>31501239
No. what I meant is that it is a very similar rifle to what he was trained on and that is why he picked it.