I put another image up here if it helps any. What happened to me was that the slot where it shows the can in had is glitched and cant put anything there. But when i ate this can from "vicinity" it copied the item to the broken slot and still had the vicinity item. Clicking one selected both. kinda like 2 pointers for the same object. After eating, both items vanished and the slot is still broken.

Don't know if that sheds any light on the issue but figured it couldn't hurt.

yeah i can see this being an issue. Added a picture of one of the military loot spawns with 3 of the same item. And i was under the influence that Long Range Scopes were the really high on the rare loot table.