This here is flippin’ awesome:
This is a video of Dr. Josiah Thompson, noted JFK conspiracy author, explaining why Oswald could not have fired the number of shots he is said to have fired (3) in the amount of time it is said he had (most conspiracy buffs cite a number around 6 seconds, usually something overly exact like “5.6 seconds”).
Now, never mind that the FBI test he is apparently misrepresenting shows that it is possible to shoot three accurate shots with a Mannlicher-Carcano rifle like Oswald’s in as little as 4.5 seconds. This guy proceeds to tell us that the “necessary minimal mechanical firing time” of this rifle (which he defines as taking one shot, cycling the bolt, and taking another shot) is 2.3 seconds. He flat out says this is the minimum time it takes to fire a shot, prepare the rifle for another shot, then fire again. So obviously, you can’t take 3 shots in 5.6 seconds or whatever sub six second number you would like to pull out of your ass today.
Thing is, as you can see in the video, he demonstrates what he means by “minimum mechanical firing time”. Are you seeing where I’m going with this yet? For those of you who don’t have a stopwatch handy, go here and time it for yourself.
What did you get? I tried it a few times, and never got more than 1.9 seconds. From the time he dry fires the rifle the first time to the time he dry fires the second time is somewhere between 1.7 and 1.9 seconds by my tests.
Good job, asshole. Way to parrot incorrect information then make a complete jackass of yourself on television.
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