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Tuesday, June 14, 2022, 07:43

Both Jim and Gary were correct in some of the information they remembered from memory.

Confirmed Shooter 24-year-old Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy was pronounced dead a day later, on June 6, 1968

Sirhan Sirhan’s .22-caliber Iver Johnson Cadet revolver held eight shots. Police said those bullets were accounted for, between the three shots that struck Kennedy and the five that struck five people standing behind him.

There is a theory that some hold true. That there was a second shooter/gun involved and perhaps as many as 13 shots fired. Conflicting directions of bullet hits etc. Of course there is some shakey evidence and some people refusing to interview etc. that only fuels speculation. It is true the guy who was charged for the murder is still in prison.

I do not use the term Sat. Nite Special as it holds no meaning. But this certainly falls into the classification of "Turd Gun" for me. If it's all you can afford it works well enough, but it's certainly not a nice example of the ilk. Right in line with the Italian Carcano used supposedly (wink, wink) on the senior Kennedy. It's almost like the shooters collectively shopped from the back of an outdoor catalog for surplus cheap crap weapons. It certainly served to fuel the hyperbole to get the GCA of '68 pushed through. Never let a (planned) crisis go to waste.

I'd hardly trust this as a snake tackle box gun. I guess they were pretty comparable to the H&R line back in the day. It's certainly not what one would want for a combat task, but arguably, it served it's evil purpose. It's only redeeming feature is it's mostly steel in construction. You had to poke the empties out one at a time, solid frame.