I have bought about 6 Marlins and Remingtons over the past 10 years. Only one was used and it was made during the same time period. I had problems with only one of them, a Marlin 981 that liked to break firing pins. But with a 5 year warranty that really wasn't a problem. I did have some issues over a trigger guard on a Marlin 60 come to think of it. It was a 60SS actually which had a light gray trigger guard. Apparently the company that made them used inferior plastic. Marlin had to replace a lot of them so it took a while but they finally got it right.