By Malcolm Ault -September 24, 2018
The life of Cody Wilson gets more and more curious the more you dig into it. Back in August of 2018 his name became more known in a mainstream sense as an advocate for 3-D printed guns. This is because he had planned to release designs for guns that can be made by a 3-D Printer. A federal judge in Seattle granted a motion to prevent Wilson from releasing these until his court case is resolved. Yes, he was in court already and for wildly different reasons than I’m sure you’ve heard by now.
In 2013 Wilson by way of his company, Defense Distributed was told to take down download links to CAD files they had been accessible to all. Some of these files contained weapons, including the “Liberator”.The files were up for a short time before the Department of Justice ordered them taken down. The files had already been downloaded over 100,000 times but that wasn’t about to stop the government from showing its ignorance of how the internet works. It was in response to this takedown letter that Cody Wilson, who was later joined by the Second Amendment Foundation would launch a constitutional challenge against the government for violating his 1st, 2nd, and 5th Amendment rights.
Fast forward to 2018, the government settles with Wilson. But 19 States, as well as the District of Columbia, sue the Trump government to stop the settlement. Wilson decides that instead of putting the gun blueprints out for free, he decided to sell them, but let users pick their price. He called it a “loophole” in order to get what he wanted done. Cody Wilson had political aspirations in his want to give Americans access to 3-D Printed firearms blueprints. And I’ll touch on those in a bit, but first, we have to see what’s going on with Cody currently.
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