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CAPITOL WATCH NEAL KNOX-

Frey Nomination Defeated OW SWEET IT IS! The nomi- H nation of anti-gunner Andrew L.

Frey to the District of Columbia Court of Appeals has been dropped. It’s another victory for gun owners which we were assured “couldn’t be won.”

Last summer, Bob Noble, a long-time Handloader reader who has served as my one-man clipping service for at least 10 years, called to be sure I had spotted the mention of Frey’s appoint- ment which appeared in the Washing- ton Post. I hadn’t.

What caught Bob’s eye was the fact that the Reagan Administration nomi- nee was a member of the National Coali- tion to Ban Handguns, the National Abortion Rights Action League and

other organizations which are directly contrary to President Reagan’s posi- tions. He was precisely the kind of judge Mr. Reagan had promised not to appoint.

Of course, the chances that President Reagan actually knew his underlings were making the appointment are some- where between “most unlikely” and “zip.” Judicial appointments are made from within the Department of Justice, which was probably least-affected by the “Reagan Revolution” of any government agency.

Early in this Administration, Reaganites began complaining about Carter appointees being left in place in high-level Justice Department jobs.

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Attorney General William French Smith complained that they were trying to “politicize” the Justice Department. Attorney General Smith is undoubtedly a fine corporate attor- ney, but had he known anything of the ways of Washington he would have known that the Justice Department had been politicized by every President before Reagan, and to fail to make sweeping changes in personnel was to leave anti-Reaganites in place.

No major changes were made, and the Justice Department has been the center of opposition to many of Mr. Reagan’s promised crime control bills - and particularly his promise to lighten up on Federal gun control laws.

The DOJ created the Task Force on Crime, and stacked it with anti-gunners like co-chairman and Carter Adminis- tration Attorney General Griffin Bell. Not surprisingly, the “Reagan Task Force” came out recommending more gun laws, contrary to what Candidate Reagan had promised.

Justice Department has been the center of opposition to the McClure- Volkmer bill, and has played such games as trying to bury the results of the $287,000 Wright-Rossi study, which showed that there is no evidence that any type of gun law has had any

effect upon crime. I t really wasn’t too surprising that

Justice Department supported one of their own - Deputy U.S. Solicitor General Frey - for the D.C. appeals court, where he might rule on such things as D.C. handgun ban cases. I t was surprising that he was so blatantly opposed to Mr. Reagan’s policies, though.

Frey told the Washington Post hand- guns “are dangerous, and there ought to be some appropriate degree as to who possesses them.”

Frey also helped prepare the DOJ case against Patrick Mulcahey’s 89-gun collection, which the Supreme Court last winter forced Mulcahey to forfeit. Pat, a Carolina gun collector, had been acquitted of “dealing without a license” - the charge on which the guns had been seized - but BATF and Justice Department had refused to give the guns back after the acquittal.

When I was at NRA-ILA, we funded the appeal which pointed out that gun forfeiture is. one of the penalties for violating the Gun Control Act. So why should Pat have paid the penalty for a violation which the courts said had not occurred? Last winter, the Supreme Court ruled against us. How can a collector’s guns be kept after acquittal? Ask the Supreme Court - and Andrew Frey.

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Frey’s appointment, I called some friends who called their friends, and within a few days we had the first of several meetings of what was known as the “Guns 8z Babies Coalition” - fire- arms and anti-abortion groups - with each participant organization opposing Frey for their own reasons. Gun Owners of America, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and NRA all attended.

On behalf of the “Firearms Hard Corps,” I presented a resolution, en- dorsed by 25 major firearms organiza- tions, to the press, key members of the Senate and the White House. The joint resolution called for the Republican Platform Committee (which was then meeting) to reaffirm its 1980 support of the right to bear arms, and to only appoint judges whose views were sup- portive of Mr. Reagan’s.

Several of us requested to testify before Sen. William Roth’s (R-DE) Governmental Affairs Committee, which postponed Frey’s hearings until Congress adjourned - temporarily killing the appointment. The anti- gunners screamed.

In the new Congress, Sen. Jeremiah Denton’s (R-AL) staff prepared a letter, eventually signed by 13 Senators, asking the President not to renominate Frey. One of the signers was Sen. Jim McClure, who was astonished when we told him that Frey had contributed to the opponents of both Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Jesse Helms. The Washington Post fumed.

On March 23, the Post ran a front- page article stating that the President had dropped his support for Frey “in the face of heavy pressure from Senate conservatives, gun owners and anti- abortionists. The decision not to re- submit Frey’s name to the Senate for confirmation is the first time in memory a president has reversed himself on a selection for the city’s courts.”

When we started this effort last summer, many in the Washington Establishment assured us that Frey’s nomination could not be stopped. They said the same thing about the nomina- tions of Norval Morris to be head of LEAA in 1978 and Rep. Abner Mikva to be on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 1979. But ILA fought both.

The point is: If we had followed the “Washington Wisdom,” and hadn’t fought, we would have lost all three battles by default. By fighting, we won two out of three - and possibly we could have won all three if ILA had been allowed to continue the Mikva fight.

Remember that scorecard the next time someone tells you that “we can’t win, so we’d better compromise.” 0

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Remarkable 55-year History

The Star universal rotary progressive. Although accessories aren’t needed to increase reloading rates, this base (sold by B&C Products, 943 Sonora Court, San Dimas CA) does make handling bullets and cases easier.

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HE MOST ADVANCED type of T hand-operated reloading press on the market is the progressive - a machine that performs a function on several cartridges at once and produces a loaded round with each press cycle. Historically, at least, primer insertion and powder charging were totally auto- mated. And advancing one case in the press advanced all of them.

Progressive tools offer very .high production rates because virtually all reloading steps are automated. Machines can be purchased to load pistol, rifle or shotgun ammo. The oldest and, I think, one of the finest tools of this kind is made by Star Machine Works of San Diego, Cali- fornia.

To understand Star’s contribution to the “modern” history of reloading, we need to know how reloading was done prior to the introduction of the Star tool (probably 1931 or 1932). Up to the opening days of the 1930s the only popular reloading presses available were simple hand tools, with the pos- sible exception of the early Pacific C- press, introduced in about 1928. I t is true that Ideal (Lyman), Pacific and a few others made some larger equipment (other than hand tools), but it was not what we now consider to be sophis- ticated metallic cartridge reloading machines.

The Star progressive, then, caused reloading to jump from the relatively primitive tools to the most advanced of today’s press designs in one giant leap. 0-presses, H-presses, and turrets all came later. Star could make this great stride because its machine was a scaled down version of one of two types of pro- gressive reloaders then in use by the major ammunition manufacturers. Thus, although Star Machine Works didn’t “invent” the progressive, it certainly made the machine available to the reloading public.

In the 50-plus years since Star

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achieved this breakthrough, no other press has appeared that can load ammunition with such speed. Actually the limiting factor in rate of production in most progressives is operator reac- tion time, not any machine limitation.

Initially, Star offered what is now properly called a “simple progressive” - a machine set up in one caliber that cannot be caliber-converted. Most simple progressives were designed to load the .38 Special, which was just good business sense. Reloading was not a means of sustaining the shooting hobby in the 1930s. About the only customers with a need for a machine capable of loading 600 rounds an hour were police departments, and almost all officers were issued .38 Special revolvers.

On these early machines, only cases with the .38 Special’s rim diameter would fit into the “shell holder” - actually called a shell plate since it held six shells at a time. Also, the base of the machine under the shell plate had a groove of matching diameter.

About 1933 Star Machine decided that it might be able to sell reloaders in other calibers. First, another simple progressive was produced for the .32 S&W Long. This now rare Star machine was the only simple progressive ever made for that cartridge.

Next the company produced what would now be called a “universal pro- gressive’’ - a machine where caliber conversions were easily possible. All they had to do was modify the base, make shell plates for other calibers,

modify the powder drop tube, and provide for the use of either small or large pistol primers.

This ease of modification wasn’t just luck. The Star patents show that the design was intended for pistol, rifle or shotgun rounds. As far as anyone knows, however, no shotshell tools were ever produced.

Oddly enough, a lot of information on early company history is scarce. Original owner of Star Machine Works was C.R. Peterson. The shop was situated a t the end of Beach Street in San Diego, near the docks, but was moved to its present location in 1935. Peterson’s nephew, Elard Mock, helped in the design of the first Star presses; however, Peterson’s name appears on all the patents.

The machine company was making brass irrigation sprinklers for the citrus and avocado farms in the early thirties (and perhaps before). Today, in addition to producing reloading presses, the company is still making brass sprin- klers for the same farms.

Remarkable also is the fact that the company has been basically a family operation all these years. In the OS, Elard Mock and Willis Brenizer bought the company from Mr. Peterson (who has since passed on), and these men still

Right, Star’s rarest model is the old straightline. The only record available is this photograph from Phil Sharpe’s

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manage the plant. Star Machine Works is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, family-owned businesses in the reload- ing industry.

Presently, the Star is priced at $925 for a pistol tool and about $1,500 for the rifle press, each set up in only one caliber. True circular (rotary) pro- gressives, like the Star, currently list from about $850 to $2,500. Of these, the Star price is near the low end. Prices on other styles of progressives range from about $200 to $2,500. Even here the Star price isn’t high.

Although many firms over the last 50 years have indicated they’d build a

left, a Star universal pistol cartridge reloader; right, a universal rifle cartridge tool.

Another product, just as popular today as it was when it was introduced in the mid- thirties, is the Star lubricator.

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pistol tool in virtually any caliber, Star’s list was and is just about the most complete. Presently available calibers include .30 Carbine, .32 S&W Long, .380, 9mm Luger, .38 Super, .38 Special, .357 Magnum, .41 Magnum, .44 Special, .44 Magnum, .45 ACP and .45 LC. The only caliber I know of that was ever dropped is the .32 ACP.

Because it was introduced before press makers standardized the size of reloading dies, a Star can be purchased with either - Star’s own die sue or the more normal y8 x 14 thread. Personally, I prefer Star’s because I think that the crimping dies work better.

Just as the pistol machine can only load pistol rounds, the rifle tool can only handle rifle shells. Star suggests, inci- dentally, that for a cartridge like the .30-06, sizing be done on a single-station press. Sizing such a round on the rifle machine is a t the upper limit of the press’s ability. This is also true on many other rifle progressives, and some are larger machines.

Another Star tool combines a uni- versal pistol base with a rifle tool head. At about $1,100, this variation can handle all Star’s pistol calibers, plus the 2.23 rifle round.

The rarest Star tool, by the way, was an entirely different design, a straightline, made for only a year or two in the mid-thirties. What makes the straightline interesting is not its rarity but rather the reason why it was dropped. Star found that to produce a high quality straightline design resulted in a more expensive press. Essentially the problem was that caliber conversions were a bit more difficult.

Except for the new and ingenious Ransom progressive, caliber conversion complexities have been a problem for virtually every straightline. Very recently, in fact, one major straightline maker dropped plans to introduce caliber conversion kits because it was felt, correctly I think, that the com- plexity of installing such a kit would be beyond the mechanical ability of many potential customers. Basically the problem is getting the case advance- ment slide, the primer slide, and the primer punch to all work together properly.

Caliber conversion on a Star univer- sal, however, is easy. You can do it by either changing out parts or changing the shell plate and tool head. Because case advancement isn’t automated, there is no problem in getting it to properly interact with the primer slide and primer punch.

Details on how to operate a pro- gressive safely have been covered elsewhere (“Living with Progressive

Loaders,” 9th Handloaderk Digest). Also for those who are interested, the& is a historical review of all the progres- sives then known (“The Odd History and Bright Future of Progressive Loads,” 9th Handloader’s Digest), and a series of articles (in Police Marksman Magazine) on many of the individual machines. And George Thompson (“Do You Need a Progressive?” 10th Hand- loader’s Digest) explained the things to consider before buying. Oddly enough, even though Mr. Thompson didn’t seem to be a fan of progressives, even he seemed to share my liking of the Star. Finally, there was an article addressing all of the independently produced Star accessories (“Wringing Out the Star Universal Progressive Loader,” Hand- loader Magazine No. 68).

Those accessories pose a curious problem. Intended to give a Star even greater reloading speed, they are, alas, solutions to a nonexistent problem. A Star can easily load 600 rounds per hour. Some claim it’s possible to go twice this fast, though I doubt anyone can safely operate any progressive a t such a speed. Thus, speed-enhancing accessories have little value since the basic machine is capable of loading as fast as any reasonable person would want to attempt. Also, accessories not only add to the cost, but increase operational complexity.

On most Star-type reloaders, the user manually advances the shell plate, and a spring-loaded ball locks it in place. Cartridges are held in the shell plate by cutouts that closely resemble a stan- dard shell holder; power from the operator directly seats primers. Using this arrangement, the shell plate is easily indexed, locked in place, and correctly positioned for easy primer insertion.

On the early straightline machines, however, cases were automatically advanced by a case slide that looked nothing like a conventional shell holder.

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Thus there was only a small hole, sized to match the correct primer, through which the primer had to pass. There was little margin for error.

Also, primers were spring-fed into the machine. The small hole in the primer slide that carried the primer had to line up perfectly under the primer hole in the case slide. Since both the case slide and primer slide were springdriven (not locked in place), and had little tolerance for error, getting the machine to coop- erate was not without difficulty.

A wellcleaned, old straightline can be so adjusted, of course, but once it gets dirty (powder and primer debris, or whatever), keeping it adjusted is vir- tually impossible. Other than frequent cleaning, the only practical solution to timing problems is to gently tap both the case and primer slides during each operating cycle.

Because cases are usually auto- matically advanced in straightline designs, case slide return timing is critical. You must ascertain that the case actually moves to the next station before the slide starts back. Otherwise the partially reloaded cases will be ejected from the mechanism. Dirt can cause troubles with this adjustment too.

Because of these problems, early straightlines never did live up to their potential, and rotary progressives went virtually unchallenged for a quarter- century. Starting about 1956, and con- tinuing through to the late 19709, competition came and several firms tried to copy the Star design. I have all but the most expensive of these models and find them to be excellent - clearly capable of giving Star Machine Works serious competition. They never did, however, and the reason why certainly isn’t obvious.

Although Star had competitors from the 1930s right to the present, serious competition didn’t start untl the mid- seventies. Perhaps by then the Star reputation was so firmly established that the words Star and “progressive” meant one and the same thing to most customers. Good competition has been offered since the mid-seventies, but no firm has come close to displacing Star.

Star Machine Works has been build- ing progressive reloading tools for more than 55 years. In all that time they have maintained a sound reputation for quality. I must admit that today there are a number of good machines on the market, including the C-H Auto- Champion, Ransom and RCBS. Of these, the Star included, the service- ability of the various models increases with price, and the Star is, within this set, the most expensive. Still, Star’s place seems assured. 0

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