Hi everyone,

I'm a 20-year-old who just moved to Alaska and plan to spend a lot of time outdoors, especially fishing and hiking. Given the remote nature of these activities and the potential for wildlife encounters, I’m considering purchasing a handgun for protection.

Back in Wisconsin, you need to be 18 to open carry, but I'm unsure about the regulations here in Alaska. Can a 20-year-old legally possess and carry a handgun in Alaska? What are the rules for carrying while engaged in outdoor activities? Is open chest carry legal?

I would like to point out, I’m not planning on staying here forever so I will be keeping my out of state license. I have a handgun at home I carry while trout fishing and hunting be decided against bringing it due to driving through Canada.

I’d appreciate any advice or personal experiences you can share about handgun ownership and carrying in Alaska, especially for someone new to the state.

Thanks in advance for your help!

The Cushman Range has reopened with some pretty nice dirt embankments.

News article and video on the reopening: https://www.webcenterfairbanks.com/2022/08/26/south-cushman-shooting-range-reopens-after-renovations/

I have an upper that I have advertised on one of the AK classifieds sites, but no hits.

Is there any place besides alaskalist to advertise that actually gets visibility?

Throwaway…

Would a mental health adjudication in a different state prevent gun ownership in AK via purchase from an FFL dealer?

I’m thinking about heading up to your find state for summer break with the family. I’m a Desert rat from AZ and would like a change of scenery. Thinking I should bring my Glock 20. We would be flying. If we decide to head up you guys way is there anything I should know about carrying concealed in Alaska? I have multiple holsters for my 20 and reciprocity for ccw. Just wondering if there’s anything special I should consider. We would be spending 2 weeks in and around Fairbanks if that helps. Thanks

If anyone is looking to have their Glock slide milled for a red dot of their flavor, let me know. A good friend of mine in North Pole runs his own gun/knife business & can do it. He milled my Glock 43x slide to fit a Holosun 507k that I purchased from Bowman Arm's. I can post pictures upon request.

The AK-50 is a new and unreleased semi automatic 50BMG AK styled rifle, currently under development by North Carolina’s own Brandon Herrera. What are your thoughts on a 50BMG AK? Would you buy it? Do you think it should be legal? Let me know what you think!

I've lived in the Mat-Su since 2014 and I'm tired of having to drive 40 minutes to the Birchwood/Maud Rd/MVS ranges.

There has to be legal and safe places to shoot without ROs and range fees somewhere out here right? A free use gravel pit or something?

Sorry I don't have a cool pic to grab attention. A short story and then questions. I'm looking to get into aluminum casting for funsies, and am pretty comfortable with metal casting in general using the 'lost wax' method. I'd like to ideally find someone who has a 3D printer and print off either a bunch of low temp resin or high temp wax positives of the parts of and reciever of a 1885 highwall browning falling block, or even better a multi-piece negative mold that I can make a wax blank from, to then make the actual cast mold from. There are a few problems with this right off the bat, naturally. Anyone here think a falling block rifle action made from aluminum with commercially sourced barrel could survive .22LR? I've been told that an all aluminum reciever and block won't work because of pressure problems, and I absolutely agree for most, if not all centerfire rifle rounds, and proabbly most centerfire rimmed pistol rounds, but .22LR in a good chamber that someone else made shouldn't put pressure on the reciever much, right?

Second annoying question, is having someone else help with this even legal? I don't mean that the law looks ok, I mean I don't want the BATFE to go after me or some one who was letting me access their printer and making various lives hard just because they can. I know someone else can't manufacture a firearm for me, then give or sell it to me without them having a manufactures license and having me go through a background/4473 check. I've heard that shops can't help you build your own reciever either, for the 80%guys. Is printing off a totally non-functional part in wax considered manufacturing a firearm? Even if it will then be used to make a mold, which will be used to cast a reciever to be machined into a firearm? How about a printing off a mold to make that wax part?

Third problem. While I have aluminum, and some very very basic metalworking tools, time, and ambition, I don't have a 3dprinter. Anyone in AK (maybe even near Fairbanks?) willing to sell some print time, assuming this is actually legal?

For the notes- I know I can make silicone molds off of the 1885 highwall I have right now, and make my wax molds that way- but I'd like to not take the barrel off that gun to get at the reciever. Additionally, I could man up and use the gun I own now to get the right dimensions and make wood blanks to do the casting in green cast sand or similar- or even then make a silicon mold from that to pour hot wax in, so I could use a hot wax method that I'm more familiar with. I've just got this bug in my brain about how neat it would be to make a cad model, and then get a mold or parts from that.

Lastly, if the consensus is that having someone else print parts, even if those parts are not useable in a firearm at all in the material printed, or someone else printing molds would irk the ATF- I will have to find another way. Or buy my own 3dprinter.

Many thanks in advance

And I like Alaska.

Wife and I just got back from a romantic evening at the range. She is pretty handy with a .38. Range wasn't crowded, probably five empty lanes. Cheaper than a movie, and LOTS more fun.

Hello from North Pole.