Cody Rutledge Wilson was born on January 31,1988 and is an American gun rights activist and crypto-anarchist,.
15 Facts About Cody Wilson
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Cody Wilson is a founder and director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons", suitable for 3D printing and digital manufacture.
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On September 26,2012, before the printer was assembled for use, Cody Wilson received an email from Stratasys suggesting he was using the printer "for illegal purposes".
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Stratasys immediately canceled its lease with Cody Wilson and sent a team to confiscate the printer.
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In May 2013, Cody Wilson successfully test-fired a pistol called "the Liberator" that reportedly was made using a Stratasys Dimension series 3D printer purchased on eBay.
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The State Department Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance demanded that Cody Wilson remove the files, threatening prosecution for violations of the International Traffic in Arms Regulations.
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On July 10,2018, the State Department offered to settle this lawsuit and Cody Wilson resumed work at DEFCAD.
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Cody Wilson appeared on behalf of the Dark Wallet project at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas in 2014.
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In 2017, Cody Wilson launched Hatreon, an "alt-right version of Patreon", to provide crowdfunding and payment services for groups and individuals banned from platforms such as Kickstarter, Patreon, PayPal, and Stripe.
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Cody Wilson's political thought has been compared to the "conservative revolutionary" ideas of Ernst Junger.
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Cody Wilson did not vote in the 2016 United States presidential election.
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Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Cody Wilson was student body president at Cabot High School in Cabot, Arkansas before graduating in 2006.
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Cody Wilson graduated from the University of Central Arkansas with a bachelor's degree in English in 2010, where he had a scholarship.
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Wilson's defense attorney, F Andino Reynal, said Wilson believed the girl was a consenting adult.
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Cody Wilson was charged with an immigration violation and deported by the Taiwanese National Immigration Agency, and his passport was revoked by the US government.