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Mark Ulrik Wrote:Congratulation on finding "differences". My example shows the TSBD sixth floor windows from 2 different angles. Notice how the features don't line up, just like in your example.

Here's a home assignment for you: Find two different photos of the Carcano, taken from different angles or with different cameras, where all the features line up. Can you do that?

It isn't at all about “lining up.” David Josephs lists 4 differences, and I concur with these four.

1: Sling ring hangs under the rifle while the 6th floor rifle’s ring is on the side
2: The Metal extension under the barrel is not on the BYP image
3: The Metal cap at the end of the stock is not in the BYP image
4: A Metal/shiny object is seen in the BYP but not on the 6th floor rifle

Me:
Oddly enough, the two rifles were NOT certified as the same by the FBI expert, which we would have expected. True enough, he did not specify any differences, but he didn't. Nevertheless, his not seeing the differences which seem so obvious is a troubling matter for those of us who do see differences, I admit.

From David Josephs:

The FBI’s photographic expert, Agent Shaneyfelt, was asked specifically about his opinion as to whether the 6th floor rifle and the BYP rifle were the same:
Mr. SHANEYFELT. Yes; I compared the actual rifle with the photograph, Exhibit 133A, and with the photographs that I prepared from Exhibit 133A, as well as the other simulated photograph and the photograph of the rifle, attempting to establish whether or not it could be determined whether it was or was not the ....I found it to be the same general configuration. All appearances were the same. I found no differences. I did not find any really specific peculiarities on which I could base a positive identification to the exclusion of all other rifles of the same general configuration. I did find one notch in the stock at this point that appears very faintly in the photograph, but it is not sufficient to warrant positive identification.

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