Posted on 04/16/2009 8:59:20 PM PDT by redk
JUNEAU -- On the same day they rejected an attorney general designee who is a board member of the National Rifle Association, members of the state House on Thursday approved a bill exempting guns and ammunition manufactured and kept within Alaska from federal firearms regulation.
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Montana is doing that too
Have your cake and eat it too?
That’s all well and good - I don’t know of too many actual gun manufacturers in Alaska, but I may be missing something. Does reloading ammunition count?
The point is, Washington needs to know that we will write and enforce any gun laws that we in Alaska think necessary. And we can do it all by our big boys and girls, thank you.
I hope this will become a trend. Anything that limits the ever encroaching tyranny of the federal government is a good thing, especially when it comes to firearms and ending infringements on the 2nd Amendment.
The RINOs and Dems are trying to seek political cover for voting down Palin’s pick for Attorney General - President of the AK Chapter of the NRA.
The closest we (Alaska) have to a weapons manufacturer are the fine folks at Wild West Guns - and that is just a reworked Marlin. SO, in reality, the bill is just more huff & puff from politicians.
Not to start a late nite gun porn storm...but, lookie here http://www.wildwestguns.com/products.html - their 45-70s are da bomb!
That's cause Obama is so popular (today).
A year from now the Prince of Hot Air will have fallen so much in popularity state legislatures will be falling all over themselves to reverse such stupidity.
What Dingus from Chicago will never understand is that he has brought Hope and will soon bring Change to America, but not the kind he was thinking of.
Wait 'till he sics Holder on gun owners under the pretext of helping Mexicans with their Cartel problem. I do believe he'll be remembered as the stupidist Harvard graduate ever elected president in this nation's history.
Yes, but having the law may attract gun mfgrs, especially from states like IL that abuse them, or don’t deserve them in the first place, depending on one’s perspective. Plus it puts the feral goobermint on notice that the people with jobs and values, the ones that enable their socialist claptrap, have a limit.
You can set up a gun manufactory with just a CNC machine these days. There’s a *lot* of people CNCing AR-15s.
No so fast there.
If you look into what the BATF defines as "manufacturing", it turns out to be stuff that almost any gunsmith can routinely do. Really nothing more than assembly of components purchased elsewhere.
Now we have at least two states who are going to put BATF between a rock and a hard place. If advanced gunsmithing is manufacturing, and you need a special license for it, then any of that "manufacturing" done in Alaska is exempt from Federal scrutiny. If they want to back off on the definition of "manufacturing" then the gunsmithing profession gets a huge boost. A win for us either way.
“That’s nice. The Constitution of the United States exempts Texas from federal gun regulation as well.”
I think you’ll be seeing Texas exempt from the remainder of the Constitution (at least how it’s interpreted in DC) pretty soon.
Just about any custom gunsmith is now considered to be a "manufacturer" by the "jack-booted thugs" of the BATFE, as part of their way of extending their reach.
This backfires on them, though, when said "manufacturer" lives in a free state like Alaska or Montana!
I'd be willing to bet you're wrong.
See my previous post.
Is there a practical way to make barrels or do you have to buy them off the shelf?
That'll sure put some polish on Havad's ol reputation, won't it. :)
You just need some steel stock and a deep hole drilling machine; both are readily available on the open market.
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