It's nice to read all this worry from people in Alaska. Try being a gun-owner in NYC. The closest rifle range is 2 hours away, it's open for four hours three days a week, and they only let you load one round at a time. The next closest is three hours each way--unless govenor Chris Christie shuts the George Washington bridge access points. Then it's five hours (this actually happened to me--and my car ran out of gas while stuck in the bumper to bumper traffic, so I had to find a gas station in one of the most crime-filled neighborhoods in the us while packing a .270). Then there's the $200 mark up simply to keep a gun in the city for more than three days. The 6-month background check and $500 to acquire a shotgun rifle license--which must be renewed every three years for another $300. The 200 round limit on all ammo in one's possession at any one time. The millions of regulations on how many and what kinds of locks one must have on the action when transporting firearms. The limit on how many guns can be registered per year, the number of rounds each clip can hold, the shape of the stock, etc. etc. And this is all for shotguns and rifles--we haven't even gotten started on handguns.
As I write this, I cannot help but appreciate the irony of the fact that all major gun and ammo manufacturers in the US are owned by NYC asset management corporations
But with millions of tense, tired, aggressive, overcrowded, and slightly crazy people living on top of each other, I wouldn't have it any other way.
People in Alaska will continue to be free as free can be.