The problem doesn't lie with Remington, Marlin or any of their designs, but rather with the parent company that owns both of them as well as Bushmaster and DPMS. The true craftsmen who used their extensive knowledge of the product to build a quality gun, were all let go. Manufacturing was moved to a new location and now laborers are used to assemble the guns, and quotas have to be met in order to keep their jobs. This business model might work with other products where it's acceptable to have a certain percentage of returned items that don't work properly. The problem is that we're talking about a gun that's expected to contain an extremely high pressure controlled explosion while the bullet is propelled down the barrel. Gun manufacturing is serious business, they're not building blenders or fish tanks, they're building something that is right next to your face while it's experiencing over 55,000 psi of pressure. I'm a Marlin lever action fanatic and I'll be buying used guns in the future.