“I’ll certainly try to make it so, sir,” said Bob. “Turns out each gun—not each type of gun, but each individual gun off the assembly line—has peculiarities of construction: screw torque, variation in machine tool setting, metallic composition of barrel, precision of fit of moving parts, and on and on. This is where it can get really long and boring, Mr. Cohen, so I am cutting you some slack here.”

“You are a humanitarian,” said Cohen.

“All these little things affect accuracy. In most applications, it don’t matter. In most applications, you’re just trying to hit the target in the fat part—man, beast, or paper. In three applications, it does. Those would be hunting, benchrest shooting, and sniping. So people who do those things pay special attention to details.”

“Fascinating,” said Cohen, as his face said the opposite.

“What they have learned—and remember that the gun and its ballistics is one of the most studied, engineered areas in human behavior—is that these elements can make an immense difference in accuracy. In the rifle itself, it can be the barrel, the rifling in the barrel, the trigger pull, the fit of the stock to the action—all of these can make a difference in determining whether the rifle is just accurate enough, accurate, or superaccurate. Questions?”

The rabbis appeared to be paying attention but had no questions.