This is from the
Marlin website:
To be clear, our purchase of Marlin from Remington was not for an operational firearms manufacturing company, but rather for the assets associated with the Marlin brand. Specifically, the product designs, intellectual property, machinery and tooling required to make these great products.
Now that our purchase is complete, we have relocated the acquired Marlin assets to Ruger facilities. We also have begun the complex process of setting up production for new, Ruger-made, Marlin-branded firearms.
Sounds like they are not having anything to do with the old Marlin production facilities. I hate to see any manufacturing close down, even in a place like NY, but hopefully this works out better in the long run for us consumers. I say in the long run, because I worry that the initial runs of Marlin guns from Ruger could be pretty rough...
