LHO’s employment at that point in time allowed him to learn some basic professional photograph processing techniques that he then apparently used to create a fake ID or two. LHO apparently used his newly fabricated fake ID name to order two very inexpensive firearms. He ordered the revolver first, on January 27th, 1963, then later he ordered the rifle on March 12, 1963.
Robert Oswald wrote in his book “Lee” that LHO enjoyed trying to “trick” the authorities. It appears to me that LHO was simply enjoying using his fake ID name to try to “trick” the gun sellers (and the shippers) into providing the guns to a fake person. LHO might have also thought that the fake name might make it harder for the authorities to trace the guns to LHO. However I will say that using his own P.O. Box as the shipping address does seem to me to be incredibly stupid.
alternatives:
A. Oswald was CIA and he had to keep using the same fake name used in USSR for some reason.
B. Some other person found out about Oswald’s use of the fake name Alek Hidell from reading his letters and figured they could order a revolver and rifle using that name and create an Oswald name P.O. Box to send the rifle and revolver.
C. The “other” person was a conspirator with plan to shoot JFK and frame Oswald. Why he (or they) wanted to do that is another rabbit hole discussion.
D. The “other” person was Alek Hidell, the other personality of a schizophrenic Oswald.
E. Oswald was an MK Ultra experiment in company with Thomas Arthur Vallee and a few other USMC trained riflemen who either attempted to shoot or actually did shoot and kill people for no apparent reason. Sirhan Sirhan may have been in this group.