In the late 1980s, to comply with New Jersey’s newly minted restrictions on semiautomatic assault weapons guns that scared its legislators, Marlin chopped the magazine tube down to hold 14 rounds. The original Model 60 had a 22” barrel and a magazine tube of corresponding length, which held 18 rounds of. Somewhere in its early days it gained a manual hold-open that locks the bolt in its fully rearward position, but the best change came in 1985, when Marlin introduced a mechanism that automatically locks the bolt halfway open on an empty magazine. The rifle hasn’t changed much in the intervening 54 years. The Marlin Model 60 has been in continuous production since its debut in (surprise!) 1960. Let’s just say you’ll get a lot of bang - literally - for your buck. You could say it’s cheap, but that would be…well…cheap. In the Model 60’s milieu (much like Meineke’s), value starts with the fact that you’re not going to pay a lot. If you want a firearm that (kept well and used sparingly) can sell years later for more than your purchase price, this isn’t the value you’re looking for. Another one of those squidgy marketing terms. Since it was introduced in 1960, it has continuously represented one of America´s finest rimfire values.Īh, value.
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