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To: redk
ROTFLMAO

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!

9 posted on 04/16/2009 9:27:39 PM PDT by ASOC (On strike until Congress lowers THEIR wages)
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To: ASOC

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.


11 posted on 04/16/2009 9:38:05 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: ASOC

You can set up a gun manufactory with just a CNC machine these days. There’s a *lot* of people CNCing AR-15s.


12 posted on 04/16/2009 9:43:59 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: ASOC
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.

13 posted on 04/16/2009 9:52:11 PM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: ASOC
"The closest we (Alaska) have to a weapons manufacturer are the fine folks at Wild West Guns - and that is just a reworked Marlin."

I'd be willing to bet you're wrong.

See my previous post.

17 posted on 04/16/2009 10:00:44 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D.: "What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: ASOC
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.

Check out Lone Star Armory - a Texas company transplanted to Alaska. They sell various models of their TX-15, an AR-15 type rifle. Numerous AR parts are available through them as well.

23 posted on 04/16/2009 10:32:59 PM PDT by Charles Martel ("Endeavor to persevere...")
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To: ASOC
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.

If Alaska is exempt, then manufacturers will come. Keep in mind that, if one has no need to keep track of regulations, then any skilled machinist with a few thousand dollars in equipment is a "manufacturer".

29 posted on 04/17/2009 8:31:29 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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