Ok, so nothing new here.
But, I asked my guide about production, he said all the Marlin plants are closed, but they are still being made on the Marlin machinery, moved to the new location.
Before I visited this booth, I was talking to one of the other mods that was with us. He has a new Marlin lever gun, and says he cut his hand on the lever.
With that in mind, I inspected the edges on the levers of every rifle pictured above. They were all quite sharp. Maybe not sharp enough to cut in casual use, but under the stress of recoil, and fast followups, entirely possible.
I was frankly astounded they would let the product out with that sharp an edge on it.
Lets hope they get their act together, and radius those edges.