Another Firearm's Icon Set to Shut Down

[Dick284]

Looks like Marlin is set to close down in 2011.


http://www.tradingmarkets.com/news/s...11-874884.html

[elkhunter11]

I hate to see them go,even though I have never owned a Marlin.

[honda450]

Yeah I read in another article that a company executive said " We are shutting this plant down to facilitate growth"


What?

[gramps73]

Well I am sure glad I got one, think I mite be in the market for a few more
I don't know why they would shut them down with not allot of cross over lines

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by honda450

Yeah I read in another article that a company executive said " We are shutting this plant down to facilitate growth"


What?

From what i have read on other sites, IIRC ,and from what I have percieved, Remington now owns Marlin, and the "shutting down to facilitate growth" translates to " we are going to buy our firearms from OEM manufacture plants."
This has nothing to do with facilitating community growth, employee growth, or anything els but company bank account growth.
Cat

[rugatika]

I wanted an SBL sooo bad. The new owners at Remington must all be bow tie wearing (not that there's anything wrong with that) accountants. First they took Remington into the crapper and now they wanna do the same to Marlin. Boooo. Oh well...at least Winchester got their crap together sort of. Browning = good guys. Remington = evil. Damn capitalist pigs.

[Pathfinder76]

Originally Posted by catnthehat

From what i have read on other sites, IIRC ,and from what I have percieved, Remington now owns Marlin, and the "shutting down to facilitate growth" translates to " we are going to buy our firearms from OEM manufacture plants."
This has nothing to do with facilitating community growth, employee growth, or anything els but company bank account growth.
Cat

It's pretty tough to compete when you are paying unionized employees $85,000 a year to screw barrels into receivers.

[wayne]

Originally Posted by honda450

Yeah I read in another article that a company executive said " We are shutting this plant down to facilitate growth"


What?

"Growth" to any company is profit growth, cutting production cost can be profit growth as long as quality is not compromised. Marlin will reappear same as Winchester did. I bought a XLR in 30-30 last year and it is a good quality rifle. Good quality products continue to sell.

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by chuck

It's pretty tough to compete when you are paying unionized employees $85,000 a year to screw barrels into receivers.

I think there is quite a bit more than union issues afoot here.
besides , $85,000 is not a lot of money for someone who has to live in a city , these days.
Cat

[Pathfinder76]

Originally Posted by catnthehat

I think there is quite a bit more than union issues afoot here.
besides , $85,000 is not a lot of money for someone who has to live in a city , these days.
Cat

Maybe, but I think it is closer to that issue than you think.

[gitrdun]

You were right Gramps, good thing you and Honda took the plunge. Enjoy them, but take good care of them. Next.....Barnes bullets?

[noneck180]

Companies don't shut down plants that make money,, whats left to question? This is the world we have made and now we live with it.
On another note if Remington keeps raisng the prices , not doing better QC, and cheaping out on parts, they will be next, IMHO. from a long time Remi Fan.

[Dick284]

Originally Posted by chuck

It's pretty tough to compete when you are paying unionized employees $85,000 a year to screw barrels into receivers.

If what I read in another story is true Marlin never had a unionized work force, ever.

It seems it's the State and it's policy of taxing the snot out of any business in the State.

Read here:
http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum...d.php?t=455626

[ram crazy]

Thats to bad I had a couple .22"s that shot well.

[greylynx]

The only good Marlin I have ever owned is my Mom's 44-40 made sometime in the early part of the last century.

[graham1]

That sucks! It was bad enough when winchester stopped making a levergun but now without marlin? How much longer will anybody be producing them? I know bolts, semi's, pumps etc. are probably "better" but everybody should own at least one lever action rifle.
I know, browning makes them, meh, they never looked right to me. Mossberg, just a copy of the '94. Henry, I don't know, it's just not the same.
I was honestly hoping to get each of my boys a guide gun for a high school graduation present when the time came.

[rugatika]

Going from a blue state to a red state. Proof that socialism works...at increasing unemployment rates and reducing tax revenue.

On a different but slightly related topic did anyone else hear that Detroit is going to start bulldozing whole sections of the city that have been vacant for so long? What a shame...what has happened to that city. Can you imagine telling someone in 1956 detroit that in 50 years the city would be a ghost town?

[JET1]

Originally Posted by rugatika

Going from a blue state to a red state. Proof that socialism works...at increasing unemployment rates and reducing tax revenue.

On a different but slightly related topic did anyone else hear that Detroit is going to start bulldozing whole sections of the city that have been vacant for so long? What a shame...what has happened to that city. Can you imagine telling someone in 1956 detroit that in 50 years the city would be a ghost town?

i did read that in canadian business better yet they are shutting off utilities to parts of town some which still have residents. can you amagine if you had paid your bills for 40 years working at the plant retired and cause your neibours were broke as$'s they shut off the power to your neibourhood

also there was a repo sale online a few months ago with 1900 homes on the lot with starting bids of 500bucks and only 1200 of them sold so there were 700 homes that noone would pay even 500 bucks for

[crawfy]

Originally Posted by chuck

It's pretty tough to compete when you are paying unionized employees $85,000 a year to screw barrels into receivers.

Marlin ranks 14th on the town’s grand list. The assessed value of the property at 100 Kenna Drive is $10.5 million. The town expects to receive $246,500 in tax revenue from the company this year, $92,439 from real estate and $153,454 from personal property.

Freda doesn’t yet know whether the company will continue to pay taxes once it vacates, and he is uncertain of when the impact of the personal property loss will be felt.


HEY! all you union haters let's blame the union for the marlin owners closing down and moving down south hey wait!that's right they are not union,never wanted a union , OK it must be just plain "CORPORATE GREED" 20 years of a Republican governor need a said more. "

What union Chuck?

[JET1]

iv only read the first page i googled but

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/...f-265-workers/


said that insiders said it was due to union

[JET1]

I just read the same article you did. This is a problem all over north america right now. I love how the government takes almost half of what i make and i have to be put on a waiting list for a doctor in grande praire. Also i love that my property tax is ******ed and then i still get a bill in the mail every month for garbage and sewer and recycling and the garbage truck doesnt even pick up recycling.

[catnthehat]

Originally Posted by JET1

iv only read the first page i googled but

http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/...f-265-workers/


said that insiders said it was due to union

I would not be surprised if the "insiders" was nothing but some spin doctor drumming up rumours to deflect whatever blame there was going to be, from the original real people involved in the closing.
let's face it, the plant was a non union plant, and the workers did not want a union.
Cat