Originally Posted by Calhoun
Originally Posted by 260SS
Did Savage have a Wartime Contract to make a weapon? Possibly Marlin could have made barrels for that weapon?

Savage made over a million Thompson sub machineguns, a ton of Enfields, and a whole lot of 50 cal machineguns.

The Enfield production was the first to start, and I think they converted the Steven’s plant to it for the duration.

Then, it does make sense that Marlin probably did make barrels so that Savage could fulfill their government contracts. It would be intersting, though, to know what barrels were made for them by Marlin.


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