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!
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.
I'd be willing to bet you're wrong.
See my previous post.
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.
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".