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Ca -_ BEST COPY AVAILABLE 4 hardware, £0013, sporting goods, paints, plumbing materials, fern implements, electrical a:pliances, cutlery, dishes, furniture, and related items. They CO-customers throughout tne central snd southern stetes. Rifle scopes and mountings aecount for an infinitesimal portion of its sporting goods sales and sonsequentiy, they do not push the it’ * or make any effort to "keep its finger on the pulse of this particuler industry.” serve 50,0 tend back only 4 years me reported Helknar's rifle L Belkmap's available purchase ending may 1, 1955. From these records scope purchases for these 4 years have been: 1. Lymen Gun Sight Corporation, Middlefield, Conne Tney do P not stock scopes from this company but order a few upon reeeiving order a from customerse They mey have purchesed 10 or 80 during the last 5 or oh 6 years, primurily the cheaper ones for 22 caliber rifles. 3 soopea for risies trey menuracture and Be’ .ap'3s hendle these rifles as well as the scopes. For the 4 years ended May 1, 1965, they purcnased a total of 755 Moasberg acopes of two different ldnds. 3, We Re Weaver Company, El Paso, Texas, sold Belknap 2120 soopes of 19 different kinds’ during the 4 years ended May 1, 1955. This company's scopes are the only scopes which Belknap stooks for general use on various makes of riflege Jt Belimap does not sell soopes to the price outting retailers since these firma attempt to buy them direct from menufaoturers at cheaper prices than afforded by this jobber. Further, this firm has rejected no orders for soopes from any of its 50,000 customers exocpt for credit reasons. : Belmap handles the Weaver scopes on & "Pair trade Vass, notifying the customer by its printed catalogue as to the retail price but making no effort to ascertdin if the purchaser charges ita customers the proper price. Weaver notifies Bellmap by 4 price list the three eifferent cos<8y) Le6e, cost to jobber, gost to retailers and cost to ultimate purchaser. This price list ‘a published py Weaver when price ghanges occur and ib >. .ieved to have last been revised in August’ 1954." 60-4616