When you see Weitzman interviewed recorded on video , he looks like a man who is reluctantly supporting the WC conclusion that his ID of the rifle as a Mauser was simply a mistake
IMO, Wietzman never REALLY accepted he was mistaken. He never amended his original affidavit description of “Mauser” which is odd since by about 8pm Nov 22/63 just about the whole world had heard and/or seen on TV, Lt.Day holding the MC rifle up in the air and announcing it was a rifle “made in Italy”
Therefore, it’s not that implausible the rifle Weizman and Boone saw BEFORE the wall of boxes were “destacked in from the original twin wall configuration may have been a Mauser that was then switched for a MC rifle that would enable an easier fake paper trail to be established due to the MC manufactures having had sloppy records and possible duplicate serial numbering