The .410 shotgun cartridge is commonly available, and the lever-action has a cult following with Marlin a popular and trusted brand. Combined, you would think they would make a good match. They do, so why haven’t you heard of it?
John Marlin founded Marlin Firearms in the 1870s. From the late 1880s onwards, the company produced lever-action rifles and pump-action shotguns in competition with Winchester and Browning. During both World War One and World War Two, Marlin delivered machine guns and submachine guns for the war effort, but always returned to make sporting arms.
In the 1990s Marlin finally overtook Winchester as the most prominent lever-action rifle producer, a position the company has held ever since. Changing hands a few times over its history, Marlin was acquired by Remington Arms in 2007 and then, when Remington filed for bankruptcy in 2020, by Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc. That’s one hell of a history, spanning over 150 years, and it is testament to Marlin’s brand, quality and reliability.
Whether you realise it or not, the shotgun was perhaps the most used - if not most deadly - firearm of the Old West in the US, in the pioneering colonies of Australia and during
