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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.

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.