I mean, at the very least, trying to use the scope would have immediately made it extremely obvious that it was backward. And he was looking straight down the scope.
He was either a moron who’d never shot ever in his life, or knew it was wrong and didn’t care because he was just posing for a photo (but should have known people would know it was backwards and comment on it en masse, hurting the image of the Navy if only by “this looks stupid” by a chorus of a million armchair sharpshooters).
I mean, at the very least, trying to use the scope would have immediately made it extremely obvious that it was backward. And he was looking straight down the scope.
He was either a moron who’d never shot ever in his life, or knew it was wrong and didn’t care because he was just posing for a photo (but should have known people would know it was backwards and comment on it en masse, hurting the image of the Navy if only by “this looks stupid” by a chorus of a million armchair sharpshooters).