Texas man in 3D-printed firearms case welcomes legal battle
By CHUCK LINDELL, Austin American-Statesman
Published: August 14, 2018, 9:32am
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Gerardo Cruces and James Davis troubleshoot a misplaced board of the Ghost Gunner 2, a desktop milling machine designed to construct firearm parts, at the Defense Distributed office in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, has been in a long legal dispute regarding his ability to post the instructions to create 3-D printed firearms on his website. (Lynda M. Gonzalez/Austin American-Statesman via AP)Photo Gallery
AUSTIN, Texas — Cody Wilson found his calling when, in 2013, he successfully fired the first gun made on a 3D printer.
The Austin American-Statesman reports that very week, he dropped out of his second year at the University of Texas Law School, which wasn’t much of a sacrifice because he’d pretty much stopped attending classes as his interests were captured by a revolutionary idea: The internet was more powerful than governments, gun-control advocates and regulations limiting the ownership of firearms.
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