ORIGINAL: CafeenMan
No I'm not joking. I have a Tower cataloge from 1990 and the number of *kits* (not arf's) is magnitudes larger. How many kits should they carry? As many as they see fit. It's their business and they can run it any way they want to.
If they carry the kit you want by all means order it. But there are
thousands of kits on the market. Tower carries only a small handful and the number (how many total kits did you count?) seems to be getting smaller with each new cataloge. I'm not going through and counting to prove my point though. I have planes to build.
The Tower catalog is not the best place to try to quantify the number of kits they carry. They seem to be spread all over the place. Their web site is much easier to navigate if you are specifically looking for kits.
As for their quantity of kits, Tower has never carried everything from everyone. Nobody can, too expensive. When I'm shopping for kits, I look at Tower, Hobby Barn, and a few other places.