Here’s a Marlin I bet you don’t have....

[AJMD429]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvNhtGOpSZw

Forgotten Weapons Channel...

[Bill in Oregon]

Yoo-hoo Vall? Do you have one of these yet?

[marlinman93]

What the presenter failed to also add was some very important info on Gus Swebelius, the designer. Not only did he design this, but it was the very first machinegun built with a synchronizer to keep the pilot from shooting the propeller off his engine! A major issue that had actually happened numerous times where pilots in the midst of battle shot their own props off!
And another important note on Gus Swebelius. He left Marlin in the late 20's to start his own company, Hi Standard Firearms! A company with a great history of building high quality semiautomatic .22 target pistols. Gus was a firearms genius that often gets overlooked with all the attention given to names like John Browning.

[Ray Newman]

After the US entered WWI, Marlin-Rockwell had a contract for the Browning Automatic Rifle.

[Bill in Oregon]

Vall, did not know that about the origins of High Standard. I have long admired their target pistols, and used to drool over all the models back in the days of Gun Digest.

[marlinman93]

Vall, did not know that about the origins of High Standard. I have long admired their target pistols, and used to drool over all the models back in the days of Gun Digest.

I dearly love Hi Standard semiauto target pistols. Before my Marlin and Ballard years I had a small collection of about 20 of them. But all but two went away to support the Marlin habit. I kept my Supermatic Citation, and Trophy models, because they were guns I shot in Match Pistol, and couldn't part with them.

The Marlin-Rockwell era was focused on war profits, and almost all manufacture during their ownership was for military contracts. They built a small number of complete guns, but built huge numbers of barrels, and other parts for the other government contracts.
Marlin has a long history of building barrels for other makers, and in the 1960's they built large numbers of barrels for Sturm Ruger rifles. They only stopped because it cut into their time allotted to their own gun barrels, so they told Ruger they couldn't continue to supply barrels.