May 15, 1923 Mr. Val Ae Dear Vals Browning, c/o Hotel Bond, Rartford, Comecticut. renewal We are in receipt of advice from the Renington agreement with then on the auto-loading shotreun expiration of the last patent We have taken him which looks like also a second letter sO you will the matter has Arms the occurred Company laste up with Mr. Kiddle they are probably right. containing their arguments understand It Renington February 13the situation. to us that Arms Company that our has termimated with the and have an opinion from We are enclosing his opinion and from the Renington Arms Gompeny | we may be able by making arrangenents with to get the FeNe and with under the hide of the other people here for the importation of both the twelve and sixteen gauge Fe Ne gm, especially the sixteen gauge, and we are cabling the F.Ne today to not make any arrangement for the sale of the auto-loading shotgun in this country until they have seen you. This would not be necessary were it not for the fact that considerable correspondence has passed between us and the Remington Arms Company and the Fe Ne relating to the sale of the Fe Ne gun by the Remington Arms Company. Of course, this is all tied to the royalty caisideration and would not be binding upon us Otherwise, but we thought best to notify then and we want you to give the matter your consideration and see if you do not agree with us that it would be feasible for us to make arrangenents to import these guns. Of course, that tariff isa bad one wi th regard to having to pay a specific royalty on the gun for ech part you import, tut sach parts as stocks, screws ami srrings we could make here easily enough and some Remington parts would fit in a good many places, and the more important parts we would probably have to tear guns to pieces to get theme If this arrangement was made through us,with our standing in the trade and with our backing, we think we could probably make the Remington Company willing to at least compromise in that, if we could not make more money by importing thene Daddy says we should not get a contract for a lot of then but on these we should get a better price than the Remington Company and it would not be necessary for us tO contract for any specific mumber of guns, but we want then to anti ci pate increased business and be prepared to handle ite Your Uncle,