Ei voida tietää mitenkään varmuudella... Mutta, ei ole mitään näyttöä, että kiikari olisi vioittunut ammunnan jälkeen.. Kivääri oli löydettäessä "huolellisesti piilotettu", ei siis vain paiskattu laatikoiden taakse.. Eikä ole näyttöä, että Dallasin poliisi olisi käsitellyt asetta huonosti... Tähtäin oli asennettu niin, että säätövara loppui ja shimmilevyt jouduttiin laittamaan tähtäimen alle, jotta se saatiin kohdistettua...Tuomion Pasuuna kirjoitti:Miten se kiikarin kohdistus ampuessa tiedetään? Onhan kiikari voinut kolahtaa ammunnan jälkeen.
Ajatellaanpa toisin päin.. Ei ole yhtään luotettavaa todistetta, että Oswald olisi harjoitellut aseella, saatikka ikinä kohdistanut sitä... Tämän ymmärsi myös komission lakimies Wesley Liebeler...
"Apparently no one knows when that defect appeared, or if it was in the scope at the time of the assassination. If it was, and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary one may assume that it was, putting the crosshairs on the target would clearly have resulted in a miss, or it very likely would, in any event. I have raised this question before. There is a great deal of testimony in the record that a telescopic sight is a sensitive proposition. You can't leave a rifle and scope laying around in a garage underfoot for almost 3 months, just having brought it back from New Orleans in the back of a station wagon, and expect to hit anything with it, unless you take the trouble to fire it and sight the scope in. This would have been a problem that should have been dealt with in any event, and now that it turns out that there actually was a defect in the scope, it is perfectly clear that the question must be considered. The present draft leaves the Commission open to severe criticism. Furthermore, to the extent that it leaves testimony suggesting that the shots might not have been so easy out of the discussion, thereby giving only a part of the story, it is simply dishonest."
"The present section on rifle capability fails to set forth material in the record tending to indicate that Oswald was not a good shot and that he was not interested in his rifle while in the Marine Corps. It does not set forth material indicating that a telescopic sight must be tested and sighted in after a period of non-use before it can be expected to be accurate. That problem is emphasized by the fact that the FBI actually found that there was a defect in the scope which caused the rifle to fire high and to the right."