The Marlin Model 25MG is a

smooth bore A smoothbore weapon is one that has a gun barrel, barrel without rifling. Smoothbores range from handheld firearms to powerful tank guns and large artillery mortar (weapon), mortars. Some examples of smoothbore weapons are muskets, blunderbuss ...

, bolt-action, .22 WMR rifle manufactured by Marlin firearms Company. It was designed to shoot

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and marketed as a "

Garden Gun Garden guns are small bore shotguns commonly used by gardeners and farmers for pest control. They are made to fire small gauges such as .410 bore, .360 bore, 9mm Flobert, and .22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire, or .22 Long Rifle rimfire shotsh ...

" for use in dispatching small garden and farm

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. It also has been used for airport and warehouse

pest control Pest control is the regulation or management of a species defined as a pest (organism), pest; such as any animal, plant or fungus that impacts adversely on human activities or environment. The human response depends on the importance of the da ...

. Based on earlier Marlin .22-caliber

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, the Garden Gun was equipped with a high-visibility front sight but no rear sight. It was available with either a black synthetic

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or a straight-combed

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stock.

References

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