"Desert rifle" in English is fucile nel deserto.
"Of the (musical) canon" is just one English equivalent of the French masculine singular phrase du canon. The pronunciation of the phrase -- which also can be translated as "of the cannon, (gun, rifle) barrel, ideal, knockout (beauty, stunner) -- will be "dyoo ka-no" in French.
Commonly called the Carcano, this was a bolt action military rifle that fired a 6.5mm bullet. It was the standard rifle of the Italian military for many years. It was also the type of rifle reportedly used to kill President John Kennedy.
6.5 mm Mannlicher-Carcano Italian made rifle
M16 A4 rifle. That's why they use it now instead of the M16 A2 rifle.
the rifle, a mannlicher-carcano rifle, is in the US national archives.
President John F. Kennedy was the only president to be assassinated by a rifle. The weapon was a 6.5x52 mm Italian Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle.
Your rifle is an Italian military rifle known as a Carcano. It was manufactured by Fabricca Armi Terni, the Italian military arsenal, in 1942. There are several versions, yours is probably the "fucile" or long rifle version. It should be chambered to fire the 6.5x52 mm (or "6.5 Carcano" or "6.5 Italian") round, but some fired the 7.35mm Italian round, or the 7.9 mm (8mm) German Mauser round. You can find more information at: http://personal.stevens.edu/~gliberat/carcano/
50-100 USD
200 or so
A 6.5 x 52 mm Italian Carcano M91/38 bolt-action rifle.
Depending on condition and originality (no modifications) and assuming the rifle is a 6.5mm Carcano, about $150.
Well, we CAN tell you that it is Italian, and lkely a military rifle- since Terni was the national Armory for Italy. Beyond that, we need some description.