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The stamp of the royal crown and "Terni" identifies this manufacturing site. Its serial number identified it as the single weapon of its type made with that number. The so-called Model 91 bolt-action rifle had been introduced in 1891 by Salvatore Carcano for the Turin Army Arsenal.
In March 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald purchased a "6.5 [mm] Italian carbine", later improperly called a Mannlicher–Carcano (although it uses a Mannlicher-style en bloc clip system), through mail order, for $19.95 (equivalent to $183.90 in 2022.) [37] The advertisement only specified a "6.5 Italian Carbine" and actually shows a Carcano model M91 TS ...
The 6.5×52mm Carcano, also known as the 6.5×52mm Parravicini–Carcano or 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano, is an Italian military 6.5 mm (.268 cal, actually 0.2675 inches) rimless bottle-necked rifle cartridge, developed from 1889 to 1891 and used in the Carcano 1891 rifle and many of its successors. A common synonym in American gun literature ...
Carcano M1891: Carcano M1891: Carcano: 6: 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: 1891: 2,063,750: 3.4 kg: standard service rifle: Carcano M1891 Moschetto da Cavalleria (Cavalry Carbine) Carcano M1891: Carcano: 6: 6.5×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: 1893? 3.4 kg: integral, folding bayonet Carcano M1891TS Moschetto per Truppe Speciali (Special Troop Carbine ...
BAT VR, BTA, TR (TR with serial number below 100) [47] M26.99: 1.411 mm ... Carcano M91 [5] M27 1.75 mm 60° ... Model L Express [6]: ...
During World War I, many M1870/87 rifles were converted to share the same 6.5mm round as the primary service rifle, the M1891 Carcano, by adding a 6.5mm barrel lining and a modified M91 Carcano magazine. This barrel sleeving was called the "Salerno method"; The bolt face was also machined to accept the smaller diameter 6.5 mm cartridge head ...
Many kinds of small arms in use by the Regio Esercito were overhauled in the Brescia Arsenal, including the Vetterli rifle and the many versions of the Carcano rifle. [citation needed] Thousands of Carcano rifles were manufactured on assembly lines, including all the M91 TS (Special Troops) carbines made between 1898 and 1919. [2]
M91 or M-91 may refer to: . Various iterations of the Carcano, an Italian rifle; M-91 (Michigan highway), a state highway in Michigan M91 rocket launcher, a 115mm, 45-tube, trailer mount for the M55 rocket used by the United States Army and United States Marine Corps