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- From: swf@teradata.com (Stanley Friesen)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: The Other Rifles on the Scene (JFK)
- Message-ID: <709@tdat.teradata.COM>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:58:19 GMT
- References: <1992Jul21.071429.556@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU> <21JUL199216245904@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <21JUL199216245904@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov> scdorcy@lims01.lerc.nasa.gov (JAMES DORCEY) writes:
- |In article <1992Jul21.071429.556@augean.eleceng.adelaide.edu.AU>,
- |
- |To my knowledge, there is no "official" explanation of other rifles
- |because "officially" didn't exist. The "official" line is that the M-C was
- |initially misidentified as a Mauser ...
- |
- |I still find the mis-identification thing far-fetched. It would be kind of
- |like mistaking my bolt-action .22LR Marlin for my custom, bolt-action .300
- |Winchester Magnum or vice-versa.
- |
- Well, that depends on how much experience the officer had had with various
- sorts of firearms.
-
- Personally, I would be hard pressed to differentiate between the .22 Marlin
- and the .300 Winchester, since to me any bolt action gun is pretty much
- the same as any other bolt action gun.
-
- So, if the officer who first found the weapon had never seen either type,
- or had only seen one of the two, a misidentification is perfectly reasonable.
- [Now, how reasonable it is for a police officer to have little experience
- with rifles is a different question].
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