17 Facts About Cody Wilson

Cody Rutledge Wilson was born on January 31,1988 and is an American gun rights activist and crypto-anarchist.

Cody Wilson started Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization which develops and publishes open source gun designs, so-called "wiki weapons" created by 3D printing and digital manufacture.

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".

Stratasys immediately canceled its lease with Cody Wilson and sent a team to confiscate the printer.

In May 2013, Cody Wilson successfully test-fired a pistol called "the Liberator" which reportedly was made using a Stratasys Dimension series 3D printer purchased on eBay.

In November 2014 Cody Wilson was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, a pick the publication regretted nine years later putting Cody Wilson in its Hall of Shame.

On July 10,2018, the State Department offered to settle the lawsuit and Cody Wilson continued to work at DEFCAD.

Cody Wilson appeared at the SXSW festival in Austin in 2014 to discuss Dark Wallet.

Cody Wilson said that Hatreon clients included "right-wing women, people of color, and transgender people"; Bloomberg News reported that most donations went to white supremacists.

Cody Wilson's political thought has been compared to the "conservative revolutionary" ideas of Ernst Junger.

Cody Wilson did not vote in the 2016 United States presidential election.

Cody Wilson frequently cites the work of post-Marxist thinkers in public comments, especially that of Jean Baudrillard, whom he has claimed as his "master".

Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Cody Wilson was student body president at Cabot High School in Cabot, Arkansas and graduated in 2006.

Cody Wilson received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Central Arkansas in 2010, where he had a scholarship.

Wilson's defense attorney, F Andino Reynal, said Wilson believed the girl to be a consenting adult, and that the website where they met required users to declare they are at least 18 years of age before they can create an account.

Cody Wilson was charged with an immigration violation by the Taiwanese National Immigration Agency and deported back to the United States, where his passport was revoked by the US government.

Cody Wilson was sentenced to seven years of probation, 475 hours of community service, and fined $1,200.