Каркано М38 — итальянская винтовка, которая убила президента США

It was considered junk. Sold for next to nothing in mail-order catalogs. The Italians themselves got rid of it after the war, without a moment's regret. And then this rifle fired in Dallas—and the whole world was talking about it. In this episode of the Arsenal of Times channel, the complete history of the Italian Carcano M38 carbine: from a nineteenth-century Turin arms factory to the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. How a humble factory inspector, Salvatore Carcano, who started out as a barrel polisher, created a rifle that survived two world wars, fought in the hands of the Finns against the Soviet Union, fell to the Germans as a trophy, and was ultimately sold in America for twelve dollars and seventy-eight cents. Why this particular rifle was used to assassinate US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy—and how one shot from a used Italian carbine forever changed American gun laws. We examine the design, the caliber crisis, the failed transition to the 7.35x51 cartridge, and why the Carcano is still stored in the US National Archives with forensic tags. Music: Eyes of Glory — Aakash Gandhi, Duty Calls — Rod Kim. Photos taken from archive.org and are publicly available. All content on the Arsenal of Times channel is protected by copyright. Copying of video, text, and audio, in whole or in part, without the written permission of the author is prohibited. #weaponshistory #carcano #kennedyassassination #italy #ww2