I have handed the witness Commission Exhibit 139.
Mr. Simmons. Yes. We fired this weapon from a machine rest for round-to-round dispersion. We fired exactly 20 rounds in this test, and the dispersion which we measured is of conventional magnitude, about the same that we get with our present military rifles, and the standard deviation of dispersion is .29 mil.
Mr. Eisenberg. That is a fraction of a degree?
Mr. Simmons. A mil is an angular measurement. There are 17.7 mils to a degree.
Mr. Eisenberg. Do I understand your testimony to be that this rifle is as accurate as the current American military rifles?
Mr. Simmons. Yes. As far as we can determine from bench-rest firing.
Mr. Eisenberg. Would you consider that to be a high degree of accuracy?
Mr. Simmons. Yes, the weapon is quite accurate. For most small arms, we discover that the round-to-round dispersion is of the order of three-tenths of a mil. We have run into some unusual ones, however, which give us higher values, but very few which give us smaller values, except in selected lots of ammunition.
Mr. McCloy. You are talking about the present military rifle—will you designate it?
Mr. Simmons. The M-14.