Please present YOUR facts. I'll take Weitzman (gun expert) over your "theory."
I'm sorry, Paul...as I said ... Your mind's made up, and no amount of reasoning or presentation of the facts will change that.
I'm sure you won't believe me, but Seymour Weitzman was NOT a "gun expert" .....However he was familiar with guns and thought that the carcano was a 7.65 mauser when he saw a small part of it as it was lying on the floor beneath the boxes of books. That was before the rifle was picked up by Lt Day, and it was merely speculation. Weitzman himself said that he was mistaken about the rifle being a mauser. But since you know more about it than Weitzman........Carry on.