The campaign to make it difficult or impossible to buy gun parts over the internet is well under way. Outlawing online gun part sales one of the planks of Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.’s gun control plan. A big part of that push is the recent flurry of the Brady bunch’s and other lawsuits against makers … Read more
You may remember that Defense Distributed founder and 3D firearm advocate Cody Wilson ran afoul of the law last September when he was found to have engaged in a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl. He was arrested and charged with sexual assault. Today, the former DefDist CEO pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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, … Read more
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 … Read more
“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 … Read more
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 … Read more
“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 … Read more
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