I think that guys are getting excited over nothing. Marlin seems to have major problems in making it feed and reliability is a big thing. This is just like the 475 Linebaugh Marlin that never materialized. I said back then that it'll never work and I had several guys wanting to argue with me; look at what happened, no 475 Marlin.
Lo do they call to me, They bid me take my place among them in the Halls of Valhalla, Where the brave may live forever.
The 1895 action isn't strong enough to safely chamber any of new high-pressure pistol rounds. Marlin lacks the R&D funding to update the 1895 and 336 actions.
I think the .32H&R died from simple economics - they would've sold 5's of them. Marlin would've made much more money chambering the 9mm in a lever-gun.
Marlin attorneys have noted the '95 will feed but won't take proof loads for .475/.500S&W dreamers and that .45ACP/9MM lever actions would help rid the world of dummies that don't handload and only use cheap hardball, but that dummies' families always seem to have an attorney themselves that think mangled/dead dummies have some sort of financial worth (patently untrue). The .32H&R problem is that instead of using proven, existing tooling ('94CL) their "improvements" (no loading gate & tube loading) caused tooling/production costs to be more than projected.
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