Mr. Eisenberg. Well, I wonder whether you can send them up, and we could take a look at them.
Mr. Simmons. Yes; we can have them forwarded.
Mr. Eisenberg. Was it reported to you by the persons who ran the machine-rest tests whether they had any difficulties with sighting the weapon in?
Mr. Simmons. Well, they could not sight the weapon in using the telescope, and no attempt was made to sight it in using the iron sight. We did adjust the telescopic sight by the addition of two shims, one which tended to adjust the azimuth, and one which adjusted an elevation. The azimuth correction could have been made without the addition of the shim, but it would have meant that we would have used all of the adjustment possible, and the shim was a more convenient means—not more convenient, but a more permanent means of correction.
Mr. Eisenberg. By azimuth, do you refer to the crosshair which is sometimes referred to as the windage crosshair?
Mr. Simmons. Yes.
Mr. Eisenberg. Would you recognize these shims that I display to you, Mr. Simmons, as being the shims that were placed in the weapon?
Mr. Simmons. I saw the shims only when they were in the weapon, but those look very much like what was evident from the external view, after they were in place.
Mr. Eisenberg. For the record, Mr. Chairman, these shims were given to me by the FBI who told me that they had removed them from the weapon after they had been placed there by Mr. Simmons' laboratory.
May I have these introduced as evidence?