Marlin’s first rifles, circa 1875, were based on C.H. By 1889 he’d registered 10 handgun patents. 44 repeater joined the Civil War, Marlin finished his apprenticeship as a machinist, pocketed his first weekly $1.50 paycheck, and married Martha Moore. He turned 21 as Oliver Winchester bought all assets of the struggling Volcanic Repeating Arms Company for $40,000, re-organized them as New Haven Arms and hired B. John Mahlon Marlin was born two months after Mexican troops overran the Alamo in 1836. Now he tapped North Haven’s auto-CAD drawings to design a hybrid production model holding CNC tolerances of 0.002″ on a rifle developed 125 years ago. Materials would be fed and people stationed to make the most efficient use of space and movement.īruce Rozum, whom I knew when he’d headed R&D at Marlin, had moved to Ruger’s Newport, NH as chief engineer. At its new digs, Marlin would be assigned a 105×180-foot cell bringing parts in a compact loop through 53 steps in lever-rifle manufacture. The 150 tractor-trailer loads included 450-odd pallets of unfinished and out-of-spec parts. They did - finishing December 9 just as snow came to Ilion. In November, Darryl Freeman, facilities chief at Mayodan, kept decommissioning crews working overtime to accomplish a two-month job in one. plant, where the company builds most of its bolt-action American rifles and its AR-556. The destination was Ruger’s Mayodan, N.C.
loads, take the measure of tooling to be transferred and ready it for the 650-mile journey. Ruger’s engineers arrived to plan extraction of 40,000-lb. A prompt move was imperative winter was in the wings. Quite a task! Ruger CEO Chris Killoy and VP Mickey Wilson had visited Ilion before 2020’s auction. Ruger’s intent? Use lean manufacturing methods to build traditional Marlin lever rifles to original or higher standards of quality. of the Northern District of Alabama approved the sale of Remington’s non-Marlin firearms business to the Roundhill Group for $13 million. In July, 2020, Remington filed for its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy in two years. Remington had no history with lever rifles. Much tooling was worn out or hard to re-install. A production chief told me: “North Haven’s old machinery had been nursed by long-time workers, not all of whom came to Ilion. The quality of Marlin lever rifles fell off. in 2008, Remington shuttered the main Marlin works in North Haven, Conn., moving production to Ilion, NY. Two years after closing Marlin’s H&R plant in Gardner, Mass. Marlin had been acquired by Remington Arms in December, 2007, pulling it into The Freedom Group, an investment consortium.
That’s as concise an intro to the SBL (stainless big-loop) rifle as you’ll get from the company that bought Marlin after the bankruptcy auction of the Remington Outdoor Corp. “We’re mighty proud of it,” said Mark Gurney.
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