I think its highly unlikely that the scope was removed from its bracket and replaced back to front in an attempt to render it useless
If the story is true, surely its far more likely that the user removed it from its bracket, discarding it and its caps away from the scope, followed by bashing the scope against a surface to try and render it useless
This seems to follow standard destruction drill

Does it not seem reasonable that who ever recovered the component parts (not knowing any better) resembled them incorrectly?
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