[KitJ]

"You nailed it. “Bought out in the dry years and run by a bunch of suits in a boardroom.” They did their MBA routine. Lot of US companies have been ruined by them and their complete lack of respect for the reputation of the product that made their company into a household name.

Browning, Marlin, Winchester, Weatherby, Remington...all bought out and what we cherish are the ones handed down to us.

How the heck can someone screw up a Marlin, or something from John Browning? They figured out how. Cheap materials and cost-cutting quality control.

No worries. Those original guns are still good fifty, or a hundred years later.

[Charles Martel]

How the heck can someone screw up a Marlin, or something from John Browning? They figured out how. Cheap materials and cost-cutting quality control.

I have an old Glenfield .30-30 that is probably superior to the Remington-built versions of the same rifle. Sad. Not long ago, I saw that the Model 39a rimfire had been moved to the Marlin "Custom Shop" web page - with a price tag north of $3,000.00. Turns out the "custom shop" was actually a sister company under the "Big Green" umbrella - Dakota Arms. Nice rifles, but *ouch*.

Hopefully, a competent company will purchase the Marlin and Dakota bits and pieces and offer those marques a future.