ROCK SPRINGS — Inside KelTec’s Rock Springs manufacturing plant, the rhythmic hum of CNC machines mixes with the faint smell of oil and steel as operators fine-tune slides, barrels and triggers for the company’s PR-5.7 pistol, a firearm made only in Wyoming.

Erick Fredrickson, the Plant Operations Manager, said the Rock Springs plant is small but growing fast. “We’re trying to get ourselves to the point where we’re getting 200 guns into shipping every day, and we’re getting close to that,” Fredrickson said, “some days we even pass that.”

KelTec, headquartered in Cocoa, Florida, opened the Rock Springs facility three years ago. The first year was spent acquiring and preparing the building, a former oilfield services facility once operated by Cameron.

Today, the site employs 26 people an

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