One of the classic modern rifles from Marlin’s line wasn’t in a rifle caliber. Produced for
almost two decades, the pistol-caliber Camp Carbine is well remembered and growing in
collectability.
The Marlin Camp carbine was a elegant and utilitarian little rifle. Introduced in 1985 during
the height of the Ruger Ranch Rifle craze, it offered a handy little blow back operated semi
auto rifle that chambered inexpensive handgun ammunition. Chambered in either 9x19mm
Parabellum or the classic and hard-hitting .45ACP, the Marlin carbine used popular non-
preparatory handgun magazines. The 9mm version used the old Smith and Wesson Model 59
magazines, then the most common US wonder nine. The .45ACP, as a no-brainer, used the single stack GI 1911-style magazine.
Read more in my column at the Marlin Forum
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
