Soros is closing marlin! Agh!!!!

[Mr. D]

At least, that is what some folks would have you believe. I just received one of those chain emails that said the following:

MARLIN FIREARMS CLOSING ITS DOORS

Even if you do not own a gun you need to know this. I checked this out on "Truth or Fiction" who verified it. I trust them more than Snopes.

Marlin Firearms is already closing its doors! They are doing it to us, America! This needs to be spread to all gun owners and sportsmen/women. We cannot rely on the media to inform us of these types of matters.

Something you may not know that Is happening ... Who is buying the companies manufacturing guns??? For the last several years a company called The Freedom Group has been buying up gun and ammunition manufacturers. Some of the companies are Bushmaster, Marlin, Remington, DPMS, Dakota Arms and H&R. Some people worry that this Freedom Group is going to control most of the firearms companies in the United States. If you control the manufacturers you can decide to stop selling to civilians.

What a perfect way to control guns. Now if you do some digging you will see that The Freedom Group is owned by a company called Cerberus Capital Management. Guess who controls Cerberus??? GEORGE SOROS, Obama's chief financier!! He wants to restrict or ban all civilian guns. Please pass this on to all your freedom loving friends. This needs to come out. Why have we not heard about this in the "mainstream" media? I would think this would be BIG news. (Soros also owns Progressive Insurance). If you don't know who George Soros is, you need to do some research. This One-World Government atheist backed Obama with millions of dollars and Obama is a puppet on a string controlled by Soros.

Send this to every gun owner you know!

Sigh. Where do people come up with this stuff? Do we really have hard evidence that Soros "controls" Cerberus? Even if that is so, is he really hard line enough to close a score of successful and VERY lucrative businesses (especially right now)? And why just Marlin? If he's so bent on destroying gun manufacturers, why not Remington, Bushmaster, and the rest?

I know this email is a bunch of nonsensical hype and I am not looking to see Marlin closing their doors any time soon, unless they are run into the ground by terrible QC and customer service.

What I want to know is this: are any of these assertions fact? Actually backed up by hard evidence?

~D

 

[mrvco]

Cerberus didn't get to where they are wasting money on ultimately meaningless causes.

If they really want to doom Marlin, they'll sell at a premium to someone with more money than sense and watch the acquirer go bankrupt in the inevitable guns-n-ammo glut while they count their money.

 

[Mr. D]

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.

 

[Geno]

Newsmax at it again?! I regret signing up for their notices.

geno

 

[oneounceload]

Soros does NOT own Cerebus

 

[RPRNY]

Cerberus is selling Freedom Group. They announced just after Sandy Hook. Time for a group buy?

 

[hardluk1]

More bull turds. george has no control of freedom or ceribus.

 

[Robert]

Aggghh this again.