In a news conference on Tuesday, September 25, Defense Distributed VP of Operations, Paloma Heindorff, announced the resignation of Cody Wilson. Wilson will not hold a position at the company going forward, and Ms. Heindorff will take his place as the company’s director. According to her, the company, which has about 20 employees, remains healthy and resolute […]
News broke yesterday that Defense Distributed’s Cody Wilson had been charged with sexual assault as a result of an encounter with an under-aged girl. It was then also revealed by police that he didn’t board a scheduled return flight from Taiwan. As a result, as Ars Techica reports . . . A Travis County judge […]
UPDATE: According to mysanantonio.com, Cody Wilson has flown to Taiwan. “Before he left, he was informed by a friend of the victim that she had spoken to police, and police were investigating him for having sex with a minor,” said Austin Police Commander Troy Officer. Officer said it was unclear when Wilson left for Taiwan, […]
The Judge in the Latest 3D-Printed Gun Case Got 3D Printing Totally Wrong No. Really? . . . The law that supposedly prohibits the posting of the schematic is an export control law, the Arms Export Control Act, so nothing stops Wilson from distributing the schematic inside the United States. But posting the gun schematic online necessarily […]
The intent of the Founding Fathers in including the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights was to ensure that the American citizen had uninhibited access to the armament equivalent to that of the standard infantry soldier. That right is there as a check on potential tyranny. As you are likely aware, the Founders’ intent […]
“If they could build a system that could prevent people from downloading that pistol, it would be far more dangerous and the effects would be far more terrible than that little pistol. Power wants to know everything, surveil everything, absorb everything. This impulse should be checked.” – Cody Wilson in Meet Cody Wilson, the Austin man […]
Appeals Court Tees Up Interstate Handgun Sale Ban for Possible Supreme Court Review Interstate sales of a legal product? Now that’s a radical idea . . . Last week in Mance v. Sessions, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit denied, by one vote, a request for a rehearing of the case […]
“A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a last-ditch effort by gun control groups to block the Trump administration from allowing the public to download blueprints for 3-D printable guns, declining to intervene just days before the designs are expected to go online.” So reports Reuters. Defense Distributed reached a settlement agreement with DOJ last month in […]
“I consider it a truly grand thing. It will be an irrevocable part of political life that guns are downloadable, and we helped to do that.” – Cody Wilson in A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandora’s Box for DIY Guns [via wired.com]
It appears that the Second Amendment Foundation has reached a settlement agreement with the Department of Justice in the suit they filed challenging the State Department’s mandate that Defense Distributed take plans for 3-D printed firearms off of their website in the name of national security. As we reported last year, Last fall, the Fifth […]
