Mr. Cunningham. Hand loading is nothing more than taking components and by means of a press you make your own cartridges. You put them together.
Mr. Eisenberg. In this process, would you be able to take a bullet of one manufacturer and a cartridge case of another?
Mr. Cunningham. Yes.
Mr. Eisenberg. You said that you found no evidence that that had been done in this case?
Mr. Cunningham. We found no sizing marks on the cartridge cases, which after the first time it has been fired, you many times have to resize it, due to the fact that one chamber can be too large. They always full-length resize, for in a police department many officers will be using this ammunition. You might not resize if one were only firing them in one gun. In other words, you are limiting the chambers of your cylinder that they will fit into. But normally they are full-length resized, and from this you get these sizing marks. Actually they are scrape marks from the sizing die.
Mr. Eisenberg. In a hand-loading operation, is the equipment needed bulky or small?
Mr. Cunningham. It is quite bulky.
Mr. Eisenberg. If Oswald had hand-loading equipment, would it have been likely to have been turned up among his personal effects? Could it be easily missed?
Mr. Cunningham. You could not miss it; no, sir.
Representative Ford. When you say bulky——