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 Above are the 3 BY photos. In the first one, this photo has been enlarged many, many times, put in articles, on the web on forums like this one, with the claim that it clearly shows the rifle sling is mounted on the bottom of the rifle. This is not a fact, it is simply another CT twist of the facts. CTs like the 1st photo because of this illusion. It's interesting that the side of the rifle stock that has the side sling mount isn't even visible in this view, but this doesn't seem to prevent some CTs from making this claim. As I have looked at these photos over the years, I can't really even decide if there is a sling on the rifle at all in these pictures, or if what we are seeing is a bit of rope tied on to the rifle. But that really doesn't matter, because if you look carefully at the 2nd and 3rd BY photos, they seem to show that this sling is mounted using the side mount on the rifle stock. It is certainly not mounted from the underside of the rifle, as can be seen in this enlargement below. I apologize for the red circle, which has nothing to do with the sling coming off the side of the rifle. I found this image on the web, at some CT's site, who was theorizing that something is wrong with the hand in the photo. What ever. The point here is, nobody can look at the sling in this view and claim it is mounted on the bottom of the rifle stock.  #3 below. I have done a bit of lighting manipulation to both of these latter photos. Again, the sling is not in line with an underside mounted sling swivel, which would be centered on the bottom of the stock, it is clearly mounted to the right of center. In other words from the side mount. The top of the sling, where it loops around (presumably) the metal sling swivel, is not in line with the center of the underside of the stock, but it is in line with the side of the stock, right where you'd expect it to be for a side mount sling swivel. 
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"you're the cop, you figure it out"
-Lee H. Oswald to Dallas Police detectives, weekend
of 11-22-63.
"Part of the reason why we avoided talking about this thing, because every time you say something, somebody misinterprets what you say."
-James. J. Humes, excerpt of ARRB statement, 2-13-96
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