Mr. Hubert. But Ruby never carried a gun around on his person, did he?
Mr. Armstrong. That’s right.
Mr. Hubert. He had a gun that day with him, though? Would that influence your thinking somewhat?
Mr. Armstrong. No.
Mr. Hubert. And from what I understand of your previous testimony, the that fact that he would have a gun on him would be unusual; wouldn’t it?
Mr. Armstrong. Coming in and out of the club, yes; but I don’t know whether he carried it on him or not when he was not coming in and out of the club. In other words, I was stating that if he did carry a gun—when I saw him with a gun, it was always in a bag, never on him, but when he was away from the club—I don’t know where he had this gun.
Mr. Hubert. But your impression was that he didn’t carry it?
Mr. Armstrong. Yes.
Mr. Hubert. Therefore, when you found that he did carry it on the day he shot Oswald, didn’t that rather surprise you?
Mr. Armstrong. Well, no; my wife asked me, “What was Jack doing with a gun?” And I said, “I don’t know. He might have just had it in the car and didn’t want to open the trunk because he had that money in there, probably, and just stuck it in his pocket and wasn’t in his senses that he had been in all the time.”