smith was also in the leather business, shotguns, sold primers under the smith name and many other things. during that time, dealers were forced to buy these other products to get the good handguns. some wholesalers didn't buy into this, consequently, they had their orders curtailed. some wholesalers would let you buy just the handguns but at higher than wholesale prices. for those who were around during the dirty harry craze, this is the reason a lot of dealers had high prices on the guns. the usual ratio for guns to other products was 1 to 1. so that you effectively paid double the wholesale for the gun and had a bunch of stuff you maybe or maybe not could sell.