John Armstrong blasts the mail order rifle "evidence"

[David Josephs]

Here you are Drew.... I believe this is the teletype being referred to here as the only key piece of data os C2766.

The real problem is the fact the evidence which would show June's N2766 and March's C2746 shipments are not available.

We SHOULD see the March shipment of these FC rifles as ordered by Kleins on that same invoice where the 100 rifles from Feb were logged assuming they are the same FC rifles.

I truly believe you will find that Kleins did not have a single one of the 100 rifles offered in evidence - and that if Kleins ever did have a C2766 rifle, it was a TS 36" carbine as originally ordered.

I frimly believe that Jan order for TS rifles changed in April to FC is an alteration of an original on which Kleins got a shipment of 100 TS rifles from Feldsott's company.

Does it not bother anyone that not a single one of those other 99 rifles - listed with seriel numbers and everything - has EVER turned up, no record of EVER being sold to anyone between Feb 22 1963 and Nov 22 1963 even though it was advertised every month from April on... as a 40" FC scoped rifle?? Despite the fact that the 40"FC rifle was not a carbine all they did was change the description and started advertising in April