This is kind of cool. I hate the reasons that necessitated it, but even still I’d get one absent the restrictions in the US. Maybe I’d wait for costs to come way down, but it would be cool for marlin to do something like this.
This is one of the joys of living in the UK and having restrictive laws. We have some clever people out there who create guns for the UK market that allow us to taste the freedoms of other places but still remain within the laws of the land.
In some areas (even in the USA), semi-auto rifles have additional restrictions like mandatory safety training, enhanced background checks, and even flat out bans on civilian ownership. Plus, it's cool as hell if it functions well and feeds consistently... If discretionary funds and availability were to meet in my favor at some point in the future, I would have to think hard about passing one up...
