Mr. Eisenberg. So it is cheaper to buy them that way than to buy the components?
Mr. Cunningham. It is cheaper to buy your components when you do not have to buy the cartridge cases.
Mr. Eisenberg. Well, now, is it possible that a gunsmith would buy the components, including new cases, and reload together a case from Western-Winchester and a bullet from Remington-Peters?
Mr. Cunningham. I don't think that a gunsmith would buy the new cases. That is what I was saying. For instance, used .30-.06 brass, right here in town—you can buy it locally. You can buy National Match Cases, which are excellent brass. I think they are a nickel a piece; $5 a hundred.
Mr. Eisenberg. Are they as good as the new cases?
Mr. Cunningham. They are once-fired cases. They are excellent.
Mr. Eisenberg. So in you opinion does the possibility that this discrepancy in bullets and cartridge cases can be explained in terms of reloading make much sense? Does it have a high degree of probability or a low degree of probability, would you think?
Mr. Cunningham. I am sorry.
Mr. Eisenberg. Would you think it probable or improbable, in light of all your testimony, that the discrepancy between the number of recovered bullets and the number of recovered cartridge cases can be explained in terms of a reloading operation of some kind, or hand loading?
Mr. Cunningham. No, sir; I do not. It is improbable, because we found no indication of any reloading operation. And in an examination of all the cartridges that we had examined, there was no indication of a reloading operation on those. They looked like factory bullets and factory cases.