I just read an article about Remington closing their Mayfield, Kentucky plant so they can consolidate manufacturing in their Huntsville, Alabama plant. The interesting thing I found in the story was a comment below the article from an employee of Remington in the Ilion, New York plant. Here is his comment on what happened with the Marlin line of firearms:
Andrew RohnI work in the Marlin department. The quality of the rifles after Remington purchase wasn't entirely Remington's fault. The deal for Marlin was for everything but the work force. The people that used to make Marlin rifles didn't like not being apart of the deal so they sabotage a lot of the machines used to make the rifles. Remington tried fixing them but couldn't get them back to 100% so Remington bought all new CNC machines to replace the old ones and have been working on trying to bring the quality back. They have made a lot of improvement since.
The guys that sabotaged the old CNC machines even left not so pleasant notes in the machines also. I can't blame them for being upset at losing their jobs but they are the real reason the Marlin quality plummeted.
Here is a link to the article:
http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/05...tm_campaign=nl
Hope this helps.
Fred