Mr. Ryder. Right.
Mr. Liebeler. The two pieces you have are shorter than the gun is when put together?
Mr. Ryder. Right.
Mr. Liebeler. That is generally true because the stock of the rifle doesn't ordinarily extend to the end of the barrel?
Mr. Ryder. Right; now on some military rifles they do extend all the way to the end of the barrel or close to the end, put it that way.
Mr. Liebeler. Did you note in connection with the picture that you observed of this rifle they found in the Texas School Book Depository Building, did you note whether or not on that rifle the stock went very close to the end of the barrel or didn't come out so far?
Mr. Ryder. As far as I remember it had been cut off, or, in other words, it didn't go to the end of the barrel, as far as I remember, I don't. I am quite sure it didn't. It went a little over half way in the picture that I saw.
Mr. Liebeler. You mentioned that sometimes in the military rifles the stock goes quite far along the barrel?
Mr. Ryder. Right.
Mr. Liebeler. Is that not a common type of construction in a domestic rifle or nonmilitary rifle?