"The Saga of A. Subject Canadian Sales. To Mr, From Grant M,Bigelow F. L. Becker" Browning Goddard Reference Date February 2), 1950 This case is the story of another ball of yarn, It started when friend Mr. Harold Russell of the Federal Cartridge Company asked to help his friend, Mr. A. L. Becker of Cando, North Dakota, our us obtain a lé gauge Superposed trap gun. Becker is supposed to be one of the prominent shooters in his section of the country. I wrote Becker and told him if he would place his order through one of our authorized dealers we would try to get him a trap gun as soon as possible. Later we received an order for Mr, Becker's gun from a Brainerd, Minnesota, dealer. About three days after receipt of this order another order came in for a trap gun for Becker from another Brainerd, Minnesota, authorized dealer. I had the Sales Department notify the dealer submitting this last request that we had previously received an order for a trap gun for Mr. Becker and that we were cancelling this order, Then, several days ago our Mr. Becker stating fit in Canada and that was holding up the authorization had contacted I received a long distance telephone call from that he had purchased a trap gun from an outthe Customs Department at Noyes, Minnesota, entry of this gun into the United States pending fromus for its release. Becker also mentioned you direct in Ogden regarding this matter. I told him that this request was unusual, and suggested that that he he as purchaser of the gun should be able to make some kind of arrangements to bring it in. Also, I told him about the two orders that had been received for trap guns for him from Minnesota dealers. He said that as the pun was for his personal use, that now that he had purchased the gun from Canada he would not need one from us unless we would care to ship it to him as he had other friends in his trap club who were desirous of obtaining a 12 gauge Super. I explained that we would . prefer to cancel the other order as we had many old orders in our file awaiting delivery of this model. Yesterday I received the in Noyes, Minnesota. This attached matter This was letter was satisfactory. from the Bureau of Customs discussed with Art Hanebrink and he explained that as we are sole distributors of Browning guns in this country, and are so registered with the Customs Bureau, no guns can come into this country without our approval. We are protected under the trademark restrictions regulations. As an example, he said that it is not uncommon for, say, tourists in France to buy perfume of brands that are distributed in this country, and that in such instances