Ruger to Aquire Marlin Firearms Assets

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The transaction is exclusively for the Marlin Firearms assets. Remington firearms, ammunition, other Remington Outdoor brands, and all facilities and real estate are excluded from the Ruger purchase. Once the purchase is completed, the Company will begin the process of relocating the Marlin Firearms assets to existing Ruger manufacturing facilities.

"The important thing for consumers, retailers and distributors to know at this point in time," continued Killoy, "is that the Marlin brand and its great products will live on. Long Live the Lever Gun."
 
"Once the purchase is completed, the Company will begin the process of relocating the Marlin Firearms assets to existing Ruger manufacturing facilities."

I'd love to have a Ruger Marlin 1894 straight stock carbine in 357 magnum, made in North Carolina!
 
That's pretty cool. Great news for Marlin. Hope they take it back to "jm" quality.

I am curious to see what the do about the model 60. Maintain and bring further quality for the 10/22's biggest rival. Or cut it out?

It makes sense to do the former since now either rifles profit goes into the same pocket. Which is what I hope for as an owner of both.
 
Trevillian said:
That's pretty cool. Great news for Marlin. Hope they take it back to "jm" quality.

I am curious to see what the do about the model 60. Maintain and bring further quality for the 10/22's biggest rival. Or cut it out?

It makes sense to do the former since now either rifles profit goes into the same pocket. Which is what I hope for as an owner of both.
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I could see keeping the Model 60 an entry level gun and bumping the base 10/22 up since it has such an upgrade path.

Maybe, they'll bring back the 39A. ;)
 
Glad to hear the court accepted the offer.

By the time Ruger fully integrates Marlin as a Ruger brand, I'll be ready to buy a Ruger made threaded lever action. In the mean time, too many other things on my wish list.
 
MacEntyre said:
Mebbe Ruger-Marlin could bring back the Ruger Model 96 as the Marlin Model 96/22 and 96/44...
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I personally doubt that one. yeah they're cool but, there's a reason Ruger dropped the 96 series, they didn't sell.

I more see the acquisition of marlin as a way to have, amongst other things, lever actions without trying to resurrect the 96 series. History seems to show that if your lever action rifle winds up wider than the current Marlin 1895 or the Savage 99 (now there is a gun to be brought back) folks are going to be ambivalent.
 
When Ruinmington bought Marlin they moved operations south and left the people who knew how to run the production of the lever guns properly up north. The first months of Ruinmington production of Marlins was pretty much done with parts already in inventory but when that start to dry up management realized running those productions machines was a talent that was not just pushing buttons and pulling levers ... and the other wheels started wobbling. Hopefully Ruger management has an answer to reviving the skilled labor that was flushed down the toilet by Ruinmington.
 
I hope Ruger turns them around, I don't get all crazy over cheesy wood, but plastic sights and forearms falling off new guns is BS.
 
Expect to see lots of precision investment cast receivers and parts. That's what Ruger does and they do it well.
 
With Ruger now owning the Model 60 in addition to their 10/22, they will no be producing both of the most popular 22 rifles in the world. Ruger will pretty much own the 22 market. They would be crazy to kill off the marlin 22's.

I could see Ruger bringing out some new guns under the Marlin name that use cast parts. Its different, but Ruger does good casting work.

Ruger offers quite a few rifles with threaded barrels and take-down options. I'd love to see a take-down Marlin lever gun in the future.
 
CZfool68 said:
You really need to stop all this .41 talk in multiple threads. I am easily propagandized and don’t need to be chasing any odd calibers.

So just stop dammit. :(
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Come to the dark side... :cool: Very fun & useful round. Really a handloader's proposition, as factory ammo is scarce & $$$, but then you can load up exactly what you want. Warm 240gr LSWCs at 1300fps run me ~$16/50rds with new Starline brass & ~$10/50rds once that new brass is "amortized" & reused.

Besides, who wants to be like the other kids? :D
 
NCFubar said:
When Ruinmington bought Marlin they moved operations south and left the people who knew how to run the production of the lever guns properly up north. The first months of Ruinmington production of Marlins was pretty much done with parts already in inventory but when that start to dry up management realized running those productions machines was a talent that was not just pushing buttons and pulling levers ... and the other wheels started wobbling. Hopefully Ruger management has an answer to reviving the skilled labor that was flushed down the toilet by Ruinmington.
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Maybe. But Ruger has had a help wanted sign on their national website for some time now, they are only up 32% for the year, likely due to staffing issues and honestly i see rugers go back all the time for repairs. They are just super fast about getting them fixed.

Only real difference I see going forward is probably a million distributor exclusive Marlins
 
That gives them a pretty big chunk of the lever action market doesn't it?
 
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