Oswald in the doorway: the blog of the Oswald Innocence Campaign, by Ralph Cinque

Why would Oswald have stored his rifle disassembled? What would be the point of that? So that parts could get lost? Wouldn't it make more sense to store the rifle intact?

Don't most people store their rifles intact? Doesn't everybody? 

It was supposedly wrapped in a blanket. Blankets are big. Blankets can wrap a whole rifle without leaving any part sticking out. Why would Oswald disassemble his rifle in order to store it?

Rifles are disassembled to clean and oil them. That's the only time they are disassembled. And when you're done cleaning it, you reassemble it. It happens every time. There are no exceptions.

Here's an article from Fox News about storing your guns safely at home. It says nothing about disassembling it.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/04/26/how-to-store-guns-safely-in-your-home/

Here's a similar article from Guns and Ammo. Again: there's nothing about storing a gun disassembled:

http://www.gunsandammo.com/home-featured/ga-basics-how-to-store-your-gun/

I have also checked on gun forums, and nobody suggests storing a rifle disassembled.

So, why would Oswald do that? What did Oswald say?

He said he didn't own a rifle. 

But, the very idea that he would have stored his rifle disassembled, turning it into loose parts clunking around in a blanket, is ridiculous. 

He supposedly ordered it from Klein Hardware in Chicago. They supposedly mailed it to him. Didn't it come with a case? But, at the very least, they had to ship it in a sturdy box, right? Why wouldn't he have held on to the box to store the rifle? 

The whole idea that Oswald took his rifle apart for storage, only to have the loose metal parts clanking in a blanket, getting oil on the blanket, scratching the stock, etc. is ridiculous. Never happened.