All, my friend out in Colorado works at a high tech machine shop and apparently Winchester was one of their customers to make parts for. Here's what he said in an email to me an hr ago (8:00 pm est):
I was talking to the boss at work this AM and he said they threw out hundreds of parts that were made for Winchester but wouldn't be completed by some deadline they had for receiving due to maybe Bankruptcy or something. He also said that they heard there may be a deal in the works for Marlin to buy them out?.
Joe