American Rifleman is a United States–based monthly shooting and firearms interest publication, owned by the National Rifle Association of America. It is the 33rd-most-widely-distributed consumer magaz
A 1922 masthead of Arms and the Man incorporating the previous titles
On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was assassinated using a 6.5×52mm Carcano Model 38 rifle.
The 6.5 mm Carcano rifle owned by Lee Harvey Oswald
Magazine advertisement through which Oswald purchased the rifle (left column, third from top). The ad photo for a "6.5 Italian Carbine" actually shows a telescopically modified Carcano TS carbine, but by the time of Oswald's order Klein's was shipping the longer Carcano Model 91/38's.
Position of rifle when found on the 6th floor of the Depository Building
CE-141, or Warren Commission Exhibit 141, the unfired 6.5×52mm round of ammunition left in the assassination rifle