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There is no conclusive proof that Oswald brought the rifle to work. The "bag" that was claimed to have contained it seems to be of the wrong dimensions. The people who saw him carrying it in state that he carried it in a way which is inconsistent with it holding a dissassembled rifle. Though the gun was said to have been well oiled there was no oil stains on the paper. He was not seen carrying the paper to the Paines house. No one has identified where he could have hidden the gun before use.

Then of course having to re-assemble a rifle makes it even more improbable that it was ready to fire accurately without calibration of the sights.

I do not believe he fired the fatal shot that killed JFK. There are conflicting testimonies wrt the person who shot Tippet and some of the descriptions do not match Oswald or his clothes. Shells were found at the scene though Oswald had a revolver. This raises the question of why they would be deliberately left there by the killer.

Since I do not believe Oswald's role was to kill the president his rifle was unimportant to the killers. Though initially a rifle identified as a Mauser was claimed to be the assassination rifle.

Some believe that Tippet was supposed to kill Oswald and that was why he was out of his district. I am not convinced of that but there was no reason for him to be where he was or to have stopped Oswald in any case. As to the possible spilling of the beans don't forget that we have no idea what was said during the interviews since (contrary to all standard or rational procedure) all notes from the interview were destroyed. That alone should raise red flags galore.

The rifle was kept in the Paine garage. That afternoon when the police came it was gone. He brought a package to work that day, he said were curtain rods for the room he was renting (a room that already had curtain rods), the rifle was found on the 6th floor. The paper had fibers matching those of the cloth that was in the Paine garage. Pretty conclusive to me. As to the Mauser observation there is a film shot at the TBD of a law enforcement officer holding the MC rifle.

There is no conflicting testimony with regards to Tippet that are believable. A number of people witnessed the shooting and Oswald running away. Several identified him in a line up. The gun he had on his person had bullets matched to the exclusiion of all other weapons to the one that killed Tippett. There is not one shred of evidence that Tippet was anything other than an honest cop but conspiracy people just have to do character assassination to prove their crackpot theories.

To say his rifle was unimportant is absurd. The whole plot was to frame Oswald and his rifle as the killer/weapon. Again, why would they give him a 'crappy rifle.' Makes no sense.

Oswald was witnessed by several people emptying the revolver as he ran away. He was arrested with the weapon in the act of shooting another police officer. I believe that is called resisting arrest and attempted murder.

In fact no notes were taken during the initial interviews with Oswald. But later the participants all filed reports. This includes, Dallas Police, FBI, Secret Service and later a Postal Inspector. That may raise red flags to you but the alternative is all of these people were in on the conspiracy/cover up of which there is no evidence to support.