Tahun,
You could not be more wrong.
Two years running at the SHOT Show in Vegas I've seen new Marlins I wouldn't pay a dime for.
Seen wobbly stocks, wood to metal gaps filled by what looked like bubblegum, returned a .357 that was machined so poorly it was hard to look at, seen front sight blades tilted front to rear with daylight between blade & base, and so on.
Last week I saw two reject stock replacements at my gunsmith that were sent to replace reject stocks on customer guns.
Remington builds them better than Marlin used to?
Not from what I've seen, and I own older Marlins.
Others have reported leverguns that would not chamber, would not feed, had extremely gritty actions & triggers, canted front sights, etc.
There have been enough of these guns seen & handled by enough people since the Remington buyout to provide credence to the QC failures.
And those failures have been very real, acknowledged by Remington when they took several models out of production temporarily to revamp.
NOT saying the new Marlins are junk, just not what they used to be.
Remington should have had the problem resolved by now, they put quite a bit of effort into training & new equipment.
Hopefully the Marlins will get back to older quality levels.
Denis