Sticking to the manufacturing and distribution to other FFL sellers/Group type sales is the way to go vs retail. I was sponsored by a rifle manufacture in Denver until he went belly up due to poor business practices. He made a lot of AR's and those government contracts when he came out with his new coating were amazing. That's awesome for her, would be proud too!
On of those rifles, has 20k+ rounds through it and besides it's 3rd barrel and different trigger/optic now the blue coating looks exactly the same.